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        Manthia Diawara

        theorist and filmmaker, New York

      2. Manthia Diawara (born 1953) is a cultural, literary, and film theorist as well as a filmmaker whose main area of research is African studies. He is the author of several books including African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics (2010) and We Won’t Budge: An African Exile in the World (2003). His Recent films are Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation (2010) and Maison Tropicale (2008). Diawara lives and works in New York. [Last updated 2013]

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