Ousmane William Mbaye and Laurence Attali answer questions from the audience about their documentary on the life of historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician, Cheik Anta Diop.
Afrika Eye 2017 (Kemtiyu: Cheik Anta Diop Q&A)
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Ousmane William Mbaye and Laurence Attali answer questions from the audience about their documentary on the life of historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician, Cheik Anta Diop.
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When will this documentary be released and is it in only in French?
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Whole audience is english-speaking, so it's at least subtitled. It's a great documentary, well done and a lot of info. Still haven't read Nation nรจgres yet.
I noted a couple things from this vid, that kind of made me feel uneasy :
- Not many people in the audience, and the majority is white. Reminded me of those times where I would go to festivals in Brussels about movies linked to Africa or Black people in general and there wouldn't be hardly any Black people in the audience. But every time I went to an Arabic festivals, or South American one, of course the majority of people there were people from that community. Now I saw that this festival is in Bristol and I don't know how many Black people are even out there, but still. Now that I'm in Paris it's better, when I go see "Black" movies/documentaries and actually see Black people.
- Linguistics : translator is a white woman. Again, this is in Bristol, and I don't know the situation. But the whole point is this : to speak between black people (girl from Kenya at the end) you need a white intermediary. I intellectually have no issue with that, but feel that's also an area where we need to invest. We need more people learning more languages, I know there's the whole anti-francophone thing but wheher people like it or not, Africa is the area where most people speak french in the world. We need black translators who can be a bridge between ALL major languages spoken on the continent, regardless of ideology : english, french, portuguese, arabic, swahili, bambara, lingala, etc. Most people don't understand how languages are power (some people still think that it's just "a tool" to communicate and that English imposed itself "organically"), but best believe that those who do invest in it.
Voilร , just a couple random thoughts
Hope you brehs manage to see the documentary
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Yeah I do agree w/ you broadly. Note also that Africans are the most language-capable people as they usually speak several languages and easily learn new ones. At the end of the day we will end up with a couple of African languages in replacement of the European ones.Whole audience is english-speaking, so it's at least subtitled. It's a great documentary, well done and a lot of info. Still haven't read Nation nรจgres yet.
I noted a couple things from this vid, that kind of made me feel uneasy :
- Not many people in the audience, and the majority is white. Reminded me of those times where I would go to festivals in Brussels about movies linked to Africa or Black people in general and there wouldn't be hardly any Black people in the audience. But every time I went to an Arabic festivals, or South American one, of course the majority of people there were people from that community. Now I saw that this festival is in Bristol and I don't know how many Black people are even out there, but still. Now that I'm in Paris it's better, when I go see "Black" movies/documentaries and actually see Black people.
- Linguistics : translator is a white woman. Again, this is in Bristol, and I don't know the situation. But the whole point is this : to speak between black people (girl from Kenya at the end) you need a white intermediary. I intellectually have no issue with that, but feel that's also an area where we need to invest. We need more people learning more languages, I know there's the whole anti-francophone thing but wheher people like it or not, Africa is the area where most people speak french in the world. We need black translators who can be a bridge between ALL major languages spoken on the continent, regardless of ideology : english, french, portuguese, arabic, swahili, bambara, lingala, etc. Most people don't understand how languages are power (some people still think that it's just "a tool" to communicate and that English imposed itself "organically"), but best believe that those who do invest in it.
Voilร , just a couple random thoughts
Hope you brehs manage to see the documentary
also There is actually an abundance of Black translators. This one showing shouldn't be the example for all situations. There should be one common African language that we all can communicate.
