Sada Niang
Biographic Data
| ID | 99348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sada Niang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sada |
| FAMILY NAME | Niang |
| SIGNATURE | NIANG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6905-8495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Marginality and Fragility in African Cinemas’
For over a half century, filmmakers on the African continent and in the diaspora have contended with the legacies of colonial policies and their marginalizing effects on the people, spaces and cultures of the continent. Using film, they have repeatedly argued that fragilization and marginalization of Africans provided the mainstay of colonial conquest and domination. Whether the French civilizing mission or the British Indirect rule, the aim was …
Mourning and loss in four documentary films
Recently, fiction and documentaries films by francophone Africans, women in particular, have been replete with narratives of death and displacement: illegal migration by land and sea, death and violated bodies. In the corpus that I analyse below, four female filmmakers focus on debunking marginalization – economic, political or otherwise – and the downgrading of the other on the basis gender, ethnic affiliation or occupation
Se fier en toute liberté au réel: Entrevue avec Chloé Aïcha Boro
This introduction to this interview presents Chloé Aïcha Boro, a Burkinabé journalist, writer, filmmaker and screenwriter. Although she started her career as a journalist for La voix du Sahel and Le Marabout in her native Burkina Faso, her love of literature inspired her to write novels and move on to screen writing and directing films. The introduction explores Le Loup d’or de Balolé . The interview focuses on her personal life and the making of…
La Colère dans le vent: Entrevue avec Amina Weira
This is an interview with Amina Weira, born in Niger in the second decade after the wave of African independences. It addresses her life and work as a filmmaker. Along with Sani Magori and Aicha Macky, she came to cinema in the dry years of the 2000s yet managed to position herself at the forefront of film production in Niger. For Weira, the documentary form, a much-maligned genre due to its association with mass political manipulation in the 196…
Les Écosystèmes à l’écran: Activisme, représentations et pratiques documentaires en Afrique et sa diaspora
Amina Weira’s Anger in the Wind: A premonitory tale of intertwined subjectivities
This article analyses Amina Weira’s Anger in the Wind (2016). It argues that Weira’s documentary tells the story of slowly dying men through an exploration of a failed Anthropocene mediated by subjectivity and memory. Behind an almost casual handling of the camera, Weira casts a keen sympathetic eye on the ‘environmentally embattled’ populations of her native town, Arlit. Anger in the Wind is a documentary of painful, angry, recriminatory words; …
Fiction and Documentary African Films: Narrative and Stylistic Affinities
Nationalist African cinema significantly detached itself from the ideological underpinnings of reductive colonial images. It was, in the eyes of the members of the Fepaci (Federation panafricaine des cineastes), a matter of political and cultural survival. This article argues that the films of this and subsequent generations were able to do so only by fusing generic features of the documentary genre in the crafting of fictional narratives
Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman, directors. Sembène!2015. 88minutes. French, Wolof, English. U.S./Senegal. Kino Lorber. No price reported
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Ousmane Sembène: Une vie
Djibril Diop Mambety: Un Cineaste a Contre-Courant
Histoires de petites gens: La petite vendeuse de soleil
Tableau Ferraile
Flame
Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean
Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French
Introduction Discourses Surrounding French Texts about Africa and Africans: The Ubiquity of Les Sciences Coloniales Critics of the African Diaspora and Their Contribution to Debates in Paris Negritude and Literary Criticism Nationalisms and Literary Criticism: The Nature of Literary Engagement Seminal Studies: Historiography and Criticism The Wider Debate Conclusion Bibliography
Ousmane Sembène Retrospective
Djibril Diop Mambety: Un Cineaste a Contre-Courant
Histoires de petites gens: La petite vendeuse de soleil
Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French
Introduction Discourses Surrounding French Texts about Africa and Africans: The Ubiquity of Les Sciences Coloniales Critics of the African Diaspora and Their Contribution to Debates in Paris Negritude and Literary Criticism Nationalisms and Literary Criticism: The Nature of Literary Engagement Seminal Studies: Historiography and Criticism The Wider Debate Conclusion Bibliography
Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean
La Colère dans le vent: Entrevue avec Amina Weira
This is an interview with Amina Weira, born in Niger in the second decade after the wave of African independences. It addresses her life and work as a filmmaker. Along with Sani Magori and Aicha Macky, she came to cinema in the dry years of the 2000s yet managed to position herself at the forefront of film production in Niger. For Weira, the documentary form, a much-maligned genre due to its association with mass political manipulation in the 196…
Se fier en toute liberté au réel: Entrevue avec Chloé Aïcha Boro
This introduction to this interview presents Chloé Aïcha Boro, a Burkinabé journalist, writer, filmmaker and screenwriter. Although she started her career as a journalist for La voix du Sahel and Le Marabout in her native Burkina Faso, her love of literature inspired her to write novels and move on to screen writing and directing films. The introduction explores Le Loup d’or de Balolé . The interview focuses on her personal life and the making of…
Les Écosystèmes à l’écran: Activisme, représentations et pratiques documentaires en Afrique et sa diaspora
Amina Weira’s Anger in the Wind: A premonitory tale of intertwined subjectivities
This article analyses Amina Weira’s Anger in the Wind (2016). It argues that Weira’s documentary tells the story of slowly dying men through an exploration of a failed Anthropocene mediated by subjectivity and memory. Behind an almost casual handling of the camera, Weira casts a keen sympathetic eye on the ‘environmentally embattled’ populations of her native town, Arlit. Anger in the Wind is a documentary of painful, angry, recriminatory words; …
Fiction and Documentary African Films: Narrative and Stylistic Affinities
Nationalist African cinema significantly detached itself from the ideological underpinnings of reductive colonial images. It was, in the eyes of the members of the Fepaci (Federation panafricaine des cineastes), a matter of political and cultural survival. This article argues that the films of this and subsequent generations were able to do so only by fusing generic features of the documentary genre in the crafting of fictional narratives
Ousmane Sembène Retrospective
Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean
Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French
Introduction Discourses Surrounding French Texts about Africa and Africans: The Ubiquity of Les Sciences Coloniales Critics of the African Diaspora and Their Contribution to Debates in Paris Negritude and Literary Criticism Nationalisms and Literary Criticism: The Nature of Literary Engagement Seminal Studies: Historiography and Criticism The Wider Debate Conclusion Bibliography
Tableau Ferraile
Flame
Histoires de petites gens: La petite vendeuse de soleil
Djibril Diop Mambety: Un Cineaste a Contre-Courant
Ousmane Sembène: Une vie
Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman, directors. Sembène!2015. 88minutes. French, Wolof, English. U.S./Senegal. Kino Lorber. No price reported
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Fiction and Documentary African Films: Narrative and Stylistic Affinities
Nationalist African cinema significantly detached itself from the ideological underpinnings of reductive colonial images. It was, in the eyes of the members of the Fepaci (Federation panafricaine des cineastes), a matter of political and cultural survival. This article argues that the films of this and subsequent generations were able to do so only by fusing generic features of the documentary genre in the crafting of fictional narratives
Se fier en toute liberté au réel: Entrevue avec Chloé Aïcha Boro
This introduction to this interview presents Chloé Aïcha Boro, a Burkinabé journalist, writer, filmmaker and screenwriter. Although she started her career as a journalist for La voix du Sahel and Le Marabout in her native Burkina Faso, her love of literature inspired her to write novels and move on to screen writing and directing films. The introduction explores Le Loup d’or de Balolé . The interview focuses on her personal life and the making of…
La Colère dans le vent: Entrevue avec Amina Weira
This is an interview with Amina Weira, born in Niger in the second decade after the wave of African independences. It addresses her life and work as a filmmaker. Along with Sani Magori and Aicha Macky, she came to cinema in the dry years of the 2000s yet managed to position herself at the forefront of film production in Niger. For Weira, the documentary form, a much-maligned genre due to its association with mass political manipulation in the 196…
Les Écosystèmes à l’écran: Activisme, représentations et pratiques documentaires en Afrique et sa diaspora
Amina Weira’s Anger in the Wind: A premonitory tale of intertwined subjectivities
This article analyses Amina Weira’s Anger in the Wind (2016). It argues that Weira’s documentary tells the story of slowly dying men through an exploration of a failed Anthropocene mediated by subjectivity and memory. Behind an almost casual handling of the camera, Weira casts a keen sympathetic eye on the ‘environmentally embattled’ populations of her native town, Arlit. Anger in the Wind is a documentary of painful, angry, recriminatory words; …
‘Marginality and Fragility in African Cinemas’
For over a half century, filmmakers on the African continent and in the diaspora have contended with the legacies of colonial policies and their marginalizing effects on the people, spaces and cultures of the continent. Using film, they have repeatedly argued that fragilization and marginalization of Africans provided the mainstay of colonial conquest and domination. Whether the French civilizing mission or the British Indirect rule, the aim was …
Mourning and loss in four documentary films
Recently, fiction and documentaries films by francophone Africans, women in particular, have been replete with narratives of death and displacement: illegal migration by land and sea, death and violated bodies. In the corpus that I analyse below, four female filmmakers focus on debunking marginalization – economic, political or otherwise – and the downgrading of the other on the basis gender, ethnic affiliation or occupation
Art (11 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Movie theater (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)