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this week in books: histoire du Sénégal
This week was largely devoted to brushing up on my Senegalese history. I’m revising an article…
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because it was there…
Hi, how are you today? I’m fine, you know, surviving the sudden blizzard, rocking some Boubacar…
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RIDM Screening 122: Atalaku
Directed by Dieudo Hammadi, Atalaku is set during the latest elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo.…
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RIDM Screening 84: A jamais, pour toujours
Confession: I am basically posting this for good form, because it is a documentary that I…
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RIDM Screening 69: Ayiti Toma
Focusing on foreign aid (before and after the earthquake), the slave trade and colonialism, and vodou…
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RIDM Screening 30: The Square
This was my first screening so far of the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal and I…
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Maryse Condé, desire, return
If you’re familiar with Guadeloupian writer Maryse Condé, you might also be familiar with the striking similarities…
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globalization and marriage
They arrived on her parents’ front porch one crisp autumn day. They were parched and…
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drinking game with Balzac
Do you ever find yourself going through a text, doing the close reading and, in particular,…
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tragically missed pun of the day…
Roger Célestin’s book From Cannibals to Radicals (University of Minnesota, 1996) focuses on the structure of…
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