Mbye Baboucar CHAM - Howard University, Graduate School

Mbye B. CHAM
ADDRESS
Department of African Studies
Howard University
2225 Georgia Avenue, NW, Fourth Floor
(202)238-2355 tel; (202)238-2326 fax
mcham@howard.edu e-mail
LANGUAGES
Wolof, French, Krio
EDUCATION
1973-1978: University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ph.D. (1978); M.A. (1976) Dissertation:
"Language and Style in the West African and West Indian Novel in English and
French," 326 pages.
1972-1973: State University of New York at Buffalo. M.A. (1975). French. M.A. Project:
"L'Évolution thématique de la littérature sénégalaise d'expression française," 75
pages.
1969-1971: Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. B.A. (1971). French.
1968-1969: Université de Besançon, France. Completed the second year course work for
the Licence-ès-Lettres.
1967-1968: Université de Dakar, Senegal. Diplome Universitaire d'Études Françaises, 3è
Degré,' (1968).
1960-1967: Gambia High School, Banjul. GCE 'O' Level (1965), 'A' Level (1967).
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Academic Appointments:
2007 - Chairman, Department of African Studies, Howard University
2006-2007: Interim Chairman, Department of African Studies, Howard University
1999- Professor, Department of African Studies, Howard University
1986-1999: Associate Professor, Department of African Studies, Howard University
1990: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies,
University of Maryland-Baltimore County (Spring Semester)
1980-1986: Assistant Professor, African Studies and Research Program, Howard University.
1978-1980: Visiting Assistant Professor, African Studies Program and Program in
Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1977-1978: Visiting Lecturer, African Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign.
1973-1977: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of African Languages and Literature,
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1972-1973: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of French, State University of New York
at Buffalo.
Professional societies
African Literature Association
African Studies Association
Modern Languages Association
College Language Association
Association of African Studies Programs

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Elected offices
1995-2001: Board Member, West African Research Association
1991-1994: Executive Committee, African Literature Association
1984-1985: Executive Committee, African Literature Association
1983-1984: Sabbatical Review Committee, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Howard
University
1982-1985: Executive Committee, Department of African Studies, Howard University
1981-1983: Executive Committee, Association of African Studies Programs
1980 - Research Committee, Department of African Studies, Howard University
1979-1980: Advisory Committee, African Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
1975-1976: Graduate student representative, Executive Committee, Department of African
Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Other Academic, Administrative and Professional Activities and Duties
2007 - Member, Editorial Board, Journal of African Cinemas.
2007: Conductor, Film History and Criticism Workshop for Journalists. Amakula
Kampala Film festival, Kampala, Uganda. May 1-3.
2007: Paper, “Lieux de Memoire and Ethiopian Cinema.” International Symposium on
Imaging Ethiopia: Monarchy and Modernity. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. April
20-21.
2007: Invited participant, Festival Cinema Africano, Asia ed America Latina, Milano,
Italy. March 19 – 24.
2007: Organizer, Ghana@50 (Golden Jubilee of the Independence of Ghana). Howard
University, Washington, DC. March 6-7.
2007: Paper, “Oral Traditions, Literature and Film in Africa.” CODESRIA-FESPACO
Workshop on The Cinematographic Aesthetics and Culture of African Cinema.
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. February 26 – March 1.
2007: Invited participant, 20 th . Festival PanAfricain du Cinema de Ouagadougou
(FESPACO). Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. February 24 – March 3.
2006: Conductor, Workshop on Film Appreciation for Journalists, Addis Ababa
University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. November 26-December 1.
2006: Moderator, Post-screening panel discussion on BAMAKO, film by Abderahmane
Cissako of Mali, with Danny Glover and Emira Woods. TransAfrica African Film
Festival, Silver Spring. December 7.
2006: Moderator: Ngugi wa Thiong’O Reading at Howard University, Washington, DC ,
September 14.
2006: Moderator and contributor, panel on “Reframing Tradition.” Africa In The Picture
Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. September 11.
2006: Submitted a grant proposal to NEH Summer Institutes and Seminars. Requested
$238,000.00. Not funded
2006: Lecture, “Tradition and Modernity in African Cinema and Art.” Tama Art
University, Tokyo, Japan. July 17.
2006: Commissioned by the Steering Committee of the African Film Summit /National
Film and Video Foundation of South Africa (scheduled for April in Johannesburg,

South Africa) to write the research briefs for 6 panel sessions.
2005: Director, NEH African Cinema Institute, Dakar, Senegal. June 8 – July 6
2003: Member of the Jury, Zanzibar International Film Festival. June 28-July 5
2003 -2005: Member, Undergraduate Honors Council, College of Arts and Sciences, Howard
University.
2002: Moderator, Panel on “African Cinema and African Expressive Cultures: What
Relationships?” SITHENGI, Cape Town, South Africa. November 11
2002: Lecture on Contemporary African Cinema, Tokyo African Film Festival, Tokyo,
Japan, October 10.
2001: Organized and directed an NEH-funded workshop, Context and Significance of
West African Film: A Curriculum Workshop for HBCU Teachers, Dakar, Senegal.
June 17-27.
2000: Member, National Panels Review Committee, African Studies Association.
Responsible for panel and paper proposals on Media for the ASA Annual
Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee. November 16-19.
2000: Co-chair, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Administrative Review Panel for
the M.A. Program of the Department of Art History, Howard University. April –
May.
2000: Consultant, M-NET New Directions Writer, Director, Producer Workshop, Goree
Island, Senegal. January 21-22.
1999: Consultant, UNESCO. Contributed a paper entitled “African Experiences of
Cinema” for the UNESCO World Culture Report. July 1. 15 pages
1999: Consultant, The World Bank. Prepared a study entitled African Oral Traditions
and African Education. A conceptual framework for the Oral Tradition Initiative.
Africa Region, Human Development (AFTH 1), The World Bank. June 1. 44
pages.
1999: Member of the Jury, Paul Robeson Film Awards, Department of Radio,
Television and Film, Howard University. February 19.
1998: Member, Implementation Panel, National Centers for African American Heritage
and Culture, Howard University. Interim replacement for Dr. Robert Cummings.
February - May.
1997 - Member, Board of Directors, African Script Development Fund. Harare,
Zimbabwe.
1997 - Member, Editorial Board, Black Renaissance Noire
1997: Member, Consultation Group, Enhancing Diversity in African Studies, Ford
Foundation. September 5.
1997: Organizer, International Symposium on Culture and Development in Africa.
Department of African Studies/Center for the Study of Culture and Development
in Africa. Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University. April
9.
1997: Member, Advisory Committee, UBUNTU 2000, Cape Town, South Africa.
1997: Member, Howard University Campus Fulbright Committee (Fall Semester)
1996: Member, Advisory Committee, The Africa Media Project, Hopes on the Horizon:
The Rise of the New Africa (1945-1995). Blackside, Inc., Boston, MA.
1996: Member, Advisory Board, Francophonie Noire: Louisiana, Haiti, Senegal and the
Bight of Benin - The Roots and Evolution of the French-Speaking African
Diaspora in America. National Museum of American History, Science and
Technology. Washington, DC.
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1991-1995: Member, Editorial/Advisory Board, Journal of Negro Education
1993: Member of the Jury and Grants Review Committee, Prized Pieces: International
Film and Video Competition, National Black Programming Consortium,
Columbus, Ohio.
1993 - Project Director, Center for the Study of Culture and Development in Africa,
Department of African Studies, Howard University (Sponsored by a grant from
the Rockefeller Foundation)
1993: Member of the Jury, Paul Robeson Film Festival, Department of Radio,
Television and Film, Howard University. November.
1992: Nominating Judge, Second Annual ROSEBUD Awards and Competition (Film).
Washington, DC. January-February.
1991 - Member, Editorial Board, Ecrans d’Afrique
1991-1993: Member, Board of Directors, Spirit of Truth Foundation (UPRISING), Clinton,
Maryland.
1990 - Coordinator, Fall and Spring Seminar Series, Department of African Studies.
1990: Member, Organizing Committee, 33rd Annual Conference of the African Studies
Association. (Coordinated the film program and the special fora on cinema and
development).
1990-1993: Member, Steering Committee of The Joint Center for Communication, Learning
and Technology. (A Howard University and New York Institute of Technology
Project)
1990-1991: Member, Advisory Committee of the Howard University-Sponsored Faculty
Research Program in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Education. May.
1989/1990: Member, Review panel, Howard University-sponsored Faculty Research
Program in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Education.
1989 - Member, Editorial Board, The Literary Griot: International Journal of Black Oral and
Literary Studies.
1989: Consultant for Black Entertainment Television. Project: “Diaspora: The Atlantic
Slave Trade.”
1988 - Member, Editorial Board, Library of African Cinema, California Newsreel.
1989-1991: Member, Coordinating Board, Language Resource Center, Howard University
1987-1992: Member of the Board of Directors, Celebration of Black Cinema, Boston, MA.
1987/1988: Member of the Jury, Prized Pieces: International Film and Video Competition,
National Black Programming Consortium, Columbus, Ohio.
1987: Group Leader for African Studies and Research Program, 1987 Howard
University Challenge Fund Campaign.
1987: Internal Evaluator/Consultant, Administrative Review Committee for Evaluating
the Department of Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
Howard University. Fall Semester.
1985 - Member, Admissions, Curriculum and Financial Aid Committee, Department of
African Studies, Howard University.
1984-1985: Advisory Committee of the Design Team of The Africans Telecourse, a WETA-
26 and BBC project.
1986-1990: Board Member, Memory of African Culture, Inc., Washington, DC
1984-1993: Board Member, Positive Productions, Washington, DC
1984: Coordinator, Media Panels, 27th. Annual Meeting of the African Studies
Association, Los Angeles, Ca., October 24-27.
1983-1988: Book Review Editor, A Current Bibliography on African Affairs.
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1982: Organizer/Coordinator, Film Series and Special Panels on Literature, Film and
Society, 25th. Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington,
D.C., November 4-7.
1980: Organizer, 7th Annual Symposium of the African Studies Program, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 1-3. Theme: Literature, Film and Society in
Africa: Dialectics of Artistic Creativity and Social Consciousness.
1979-1980: Coordinator, Guest Lectures Series, African Studies, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
1978: Outreach work in Arkansas with different school systems, sponsored by the
University of Illinois' African Studies Program Outreach. February-May.
1975: Co-organizer, First African Literature Conference, University of Wisconsin-
Madison. March.
1973-1976: Outreach work for UW-Madison African Studies Program's Curriculum
Development and Outreach Section. Traveled Extensively in Wisconsin to
lecture on Africa and the Diaspora in schools, teacher workshops, prisons and
community groups.
I have been a peer reviewer for Research in African Literatures, Canadian Journal of African
Studies, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, The African Studies Review, The Howard
Journal of Communications, The Journal of Negro Education, The PMLA and other film and
literary journals. I have also reviewed grant proposals for NEH, The Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, The Annenberg/CPB Project, The National Black Programming Consortium
and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I have also peer reviewed
manuscripts and manuscript proposals for Oxford University Press, Syracuse University Press and
the University of Chicago Press.
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Honors and Awards
2006-2007: Howard University-Sponsored Faculty Research Program in the Humanities, Social
Sciences and Education. (Research in Senegal, May-June, $9998.00)
2005: Graduate School, Howard University. “Most Productive Faculty Award”, Division
of Arts and Humanities. April 12.
2004: College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University, “Special Recognition Award”.
December.
2004: National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars and Institutes Grant,
to conduct a 4 week institute on African film for HBCU teachers in Dakar,
Senegal, in June – July, 2005. ($203,231.00)
2004: Fund for Academic Excellence Award, Howard University, to purchase a video
camera system for the Department of African Studies ($4000.00)
2003: Howard University Faculty Merit Award
2003: Fund for Academic Excellence Award, Howard University, to purchase a video
projection system for the department of African Studies ($4000.00)
2002: Howard University Faculty Merit Award
2002: Fund for Academic Excellence Travel Award, Howard University, to present a
paper at the University of Cape Town, South Africa ($4000.00)
2001: Howard University Faculty Merit Award
2001-2002: National Endowment for the Humanities, Extending The Reach Grant to conduct
a curriculum workshop on African film for HBCU teachers in Dakar, Senegal, in

June 2001. ($25,000.00)
2000-2001: Howard University-Sponsored Faculty Research Program in the Humanities, Social
Sciences and Education. (Research in South Africa. $9994.00)
2000: Howard University faculty Merit Award
1999: Howard University Faculty Merit Award
1998: Howard University Merit Award for Exemplary Performance
1997: Howard University Merit Award for Sustained Superior Performance
1997-1998: Howard University-Sponsored Faculty Research Program in the Humanities, Social
Sciences and Education. (Research in Zimbabwe and South Africa. July-August)
1996: Howard University Merit Award for Distinguished Service Performance
1994-1995: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers
(Sabbatical leave research in Senegal and Burkina Faso.)
1993-1997: Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Residency Fellowship Grant to support the
Center for the Study of Culture and Development in Africa
1992-1993: Howard University-Sponsored Faculty Research Program in the Humanities,
Social Sciences and Education (Research in France and Senegal.)
1991: Ford Foundation Fellow, Seminar on Afro-American Studies: "History,
Content and Method." Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. June 16-July 26
1986-1987: Howard University-Sponsored Faculty Research Program in the Humanities,
Social Sciences and Education (Research in France and Senegal.)
1985-1986: International Post-Doctoral Grants for Research, The American Council of
Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. (Research in
France, Senegal and Nigeria.)
1969-1970: Rotary International Scholarship (Temple University, Philadelphia, PA)
1967-1969: French Government Scholarship (Université de Dakar, Senegal, and Université
de Besancon, France)
1965-1967: Gambia Government Scholarship (Gambia High School)
1966: Winton Lane Prize for Best Student in French, Gambia High School
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
1996: With Imruh Bakari, eds., African Experiences of Cinema. London: British Film
Institute.
1992: EX-ILES: Essays on Caribbean Cinema, Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press.
Contributing editor.
1988: With C. A. Watkins, eds., BLACKFRAMES: Critical Perspectives on Black
Independent Cinema, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Contributing editor.
Chapters contributed in books:
2005: “Oral Traditions, Literature and Film in Africa: The Dynamics of Exchange.” In
Robert Stam & Alessandra Raengo (Eds.), Literature and Film: A Guide to the
Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. 295-
312.
2004: “Film and History in Africa: A Critical Survey of Trends and Tendencies.” In
Francoise Pfaff, ed., Focus on African Films. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University
Press. 48-68.
2000: “The Dynamics of African Film-making.” UNESCO World Culture Report 2000:
Cultural Diversity, Conflict and Pluralism. Paris: UNESCO Publishing. 86-87.
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2000: “Official History, Popular Memory: Reconfiguration of the African Past in the
Films of Ousmane Sembene.” In The Historical Film: History and Memory in
Media. Marcia Landy, Ed. New Brunswick, NJ.: Rutgers University Press. 2000.
261-8.
2000: Introduction, “Can African Cinema Achieve the Same Level of Indigenisation as
Other Popular African Arts Forms?” Chapter 8 of Symbolic Narratives/African
Cinema: Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image. June Givanni and Imruh
Bakari, eds. London: British Film Institute. 183-4.
1999: “The South Narrates Itself,” in Valeria Alliata di Villafranca, ed., United Colors of
Media: Immagini: Risorse della Solidarieta Internazionale. Milano: Fondazione
Caiplo. 85-89.
1998: “Continuità e Rottura” (“African Cinema Between the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’” –
translated into Italian), in Alessandra Speciale, ed., La Nascita Del Cinema In
Africa: Il Cinema dell’Africa sub-sahariana dalle origini al 1975. Torino, Italy:
Edizioni Lindau. 219-224.
1996: "Shape and Shaping of Caribbean Cinema." In Michael Martin, ed., Cinemas of
the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence and Oppositionality, Detroit: Wayne
State University Press.
1995: “Filmming the African Experiece.” In FEPACI, ed., L’Afrique et le Centennaire du
Cinema. Paris: Presence Africaine.
1993: "Official History, Popular Memory: Reconfiguration of the African Past in the
Films of Ousmane Sembène." In Samba Gadjigo, Ralph Falkingham, Thomas
Cassirer and Reinhard Sander, eds., Ousmane Sembène: Dialogues with Critics
and Writers. Amherst: University Massachusetts Press. 22-28.
1992: "The Sunjata Epic," in The Humanities Reader, Eleanor Traylor, ed. A project of
the Humanities Division of the College of Arts and Sciences of Howard
University).
1991: "Islam in Senegalese Literature and Film," in Islam in African Literature, Kenneth
Harrow, ed., London, Ibadan and Nairobi: Heinemann Educational Books
(reprinted here).
1990: "Structural and Thematic Parallels in Oral Narrative and Film: Mandabi and Two
African Oral Narratives," in The Oral Performance in Africa, Isidore Okpewho,
ed., Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books. 251-269.
1989: La Tradition Orale dans les Oeuvres de Ousmane Sembène," in Tradition Orale
et Nouveaux Medias, Xè Fespaco, Paris: Edition OCIC (translated and reprinted
here). 171-189.
"Tradizione Orale E Cinema Africano: I Film Di Sembène Ousmane," in Il
Cinema Dell'Africa Nera: 1963-1987, Sergio Tofetti, ed., Fabri Editori (translated
and reprinted here). 61-71.
1987: "Contemporary Society and the Female Imagination: A Study of the Novels of
Mariama Bâ," in Women in African Literature Today, Eldred Jones, Eustace
Palmer and Marjorie Jones, eds., Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press. 89-101.
1986: "Film Production in West Africa: 1979-1981," in Film and Politics in the Third
World, John Downing, ed. (New York: Automedia, Inc., 1986).
"The Cultural Diaspora," in The Africans: A Reader, Ali A. Mazrui and Toby K.
Levine, eds., New York, Praeger. 277-300.
1985: "Islam in Senegalese Literature and Film," in Popular Islam South of the Sahara,
J.D.Y. Peel and Charles Stewart, eds. Manchester: Manchester University
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Press. 447-464.
Articles:
2004: “Tradizioni Orali, Letteratura e Cinema in Africa,” Africa e Mediterraneo, 45. 4-15.
1998: “Djibril Diop and Music: Sounds in the Keys of Ordinary Folk,” Ecrans d’Afrique,
2ème semestre, no. 24: 44-53.
“Some Reflections on African Cinema in the ‘90s,” Ecrans d’Afrique, 2ème
semestre, no. 24: 124-135.
“African Cinema in the Nineties,” African Studies Quarterly, Vol. 2, Issue 1. Web
published at
1985: "Language as Index of Character, Humor and Conflict in Arrow of God and A
Man of the People," A Current Bibliography on African Affairs, 17 (3): 243-266.
1984: "Islam and the Creative Imagination in Senegal," American Journal of Islamic
Studies, 1 (2): 1-22.
"Art and Ideology in the Work of Ousmane Sembene and Haile Gerima,"
Presence Africaine, 129, ler trimestre: 79-91. This is a reprint of an earlier
version entitled "Artistic and Ideological Convergence: Ousmane Sembene and
Haile Gerima," in Ufahamu, XI (2), Fall 1981-Winter 1982.
"The Female Condition in Africa: A Literary Exploration by Mariama Ba," A
Current Bibliography on African Affairs, 17(1): 29-52.
"The Creative Artist, State and Society in Africa," A Current Bibliography on
African Affairs, 17 (1): 17-28.
"Language, Class and Character in the Caribbean Novel," Western Journal of
Black Studies, 8(4), 229-234.
1982: "Ousmane Sembene and the Aesthetics of African Oral Traditions," Africana
Journal, XIII (1-4), 24-40.
1982: "Film Production in West Africa: 1979-1981," Presence Africaine, 124, 4e
trimestre: 168-189.
1981: "Trickster: A Structural Analysis of Five Basotho Narratives," Ba Shiru, 12 (1):
66-75.
On The WEB
2002 “Film and History: A Critcal Survey of Current Trends and
Tendencies.”WWW.UCT.AC.ZA/CONFERENCES/FILMHISTORYNOW/PAPERS.
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Monographs/Interviews/General Articles:
2006: “African Cinema and Arts: Between the ‘Old’ and The New.’” Published in the
catalogue of the exhibit on art of George Lilanga, Tama Art University in Tokyo,
Japan. July.
2000 “The Dynamics of African Film-making.” UNESCO World Culture Report 2000:
Cultural Diversity, Conflict and Pluralism. Paris: UNESCO Publishing. 2000. 86-
87.
2000 “Globalizing Africa?” in the Cinema Afrika catalogue of the Haus der Kuturen der
Welt. February. (Translated into German)
1998: Echoes of Africa in African American Films,” Ecrans d’Afrique, No.23, Premier
Semestre. 108-112.
“Film Text and Context: Reweaving Africa’s Social Fabric Through Its
Contemporary Cinema,” Library of African Cinema, California Newsreel. 42-43
1997: “African Cinema in the US,” Ecrans d’Afrique,” No.19, 1 st Quarter, pp. 51-63
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“African Cinema in Japan: A Coversation with Kenji Shiraishi,” Ecrans d’Afrique.
No. 2, 3 rd .-4 th . Quarter. 50-54.
“Tokyo African Film Festival,” Ecrans d’Afrique. No. 2, 3 rd .-4 th . Quarter. 52.
“Ousmane Sembène: The Man and His Works.” Translated into Spanish by
Manuel Sanchez . Web-published:
“African Cinema in the 90s,” Festival Catalogue, Tokyo African Film Festival.13-
15. Translated into Japanese.
“African Cinema in the US,” Ecrans d’Afrique,” No.19, 1 st Quarter. 51-63
1994: "African Women and Cinema: A Conversation with Anne Mungai, Research in
African Literatures, 25 (3): 93-104.
1993: "The Past Present Future: A Reflection on Haile Gerima's Sankofa," Ecrans
d'Afrique , No. 4, Second Quarter. 20-27
"Filming the African Experience," in Kenji Shiraishi, ed., Contemporary African
Cinema, a publication of TAMA LIFE 21 African Film Festival of Tokyo, Japan.
Translated into Japanese.
"Classic African Cinema," in the New York African Film Festival Catalog, Modern
Days Ancient Nights: 30 Years Of African Cinema, pp.1-2.
Interviewed by Habib Dahlil. “Le Cinéma Africain aux Etats Unis.” In Trait
d’Union, Numéro 0, Janvier 1993. 24-26.
1991: "Sarabaa: Looking for Paradise on Earth," "La Vie Est Belle: Getting Over,
Zairian Style" and "Wênd Kûuni :A Fable for Modern Africa," in Cornelius Moore,
ed. Library of African Cinema. San Francisco, Ca.: California Newsreel.
1989: “Issues and Trends in African Cinema - 1989,” in African Cinema Now, The 9 th .
Annual Atlanta Third World Film Festival & Forum. 3-6.
1987: “Sarraounia,” Washington Afro-American, November 3.
1984: "A Context to the Journey." Introduction to the monograph, Journey Across
Three Continents (film festival), Renee Tajima and Pearl Bowser, eds., New
York: Third World Newsreel.
1981: Nanu Jangg Wolof: A Wolof Grammar and Textbook, (with the assistance of
Mallafé Dramé), Urbana: African Studies Program, Univesity of Illinois.
Book/Film Reviews:
1993: A review of Spike Lee's film, Malcolm X in Take 2, January, 1993, published by
The National Black Programming Consortium, Columbus, Ohio
1987: “Sarraounia,” Washington Afro-American, November 3.
1986: Eldred Jones, ed., Recent Trends in the African Novel: African Literature Today,
13, New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1983. In Canadian Journal of African
Studies.
Dorothy Blair, Senegalese Literature: A Critical History, G. K. Hall, 1983. In
Research in African Literatures, Vol. 17, No. 4. 567-9.
1984: Emmanuel Ngara, Stylistic Criticism and the African Novel, Heinemann, 1982.
In Research in African Literatures, 15 (3), 441-444.
1982: Paulin S. Vieyra, Le Cinema Africain: Des Origines a 1973, Presence Africaine,
1975. In the French Review, LV (6), 914-915.
1981: A. Opubor and O. Nwunelli, eds., The Development and Growth of the Film
Industry in Nigeria, Third Press International. In Ufahamu, X (3), 154-159.

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Creative
Xale Yi Demoon Ghana; The Ghana Boys. A 90 minute documentary film on the Ghana Young
Pioneers and the Gambian youths who were part of this movement in 1961. In progress.
AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST:
Literary and Film Theory
Language and Style in Fiction
Literature (oral and written), Film and Society
Art, Culture and Development
Religion and the Creative Imagination
CURRENT RESEARCH
Film and History in Africa.
Cinema in Southern Africa
INVITED LECTURES, SEMINARS, JURIES, AND PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL
CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS: 1987-2001
Between 1981 and 2004, I was a regular guest lecturer (3-5 lectures a year) in the African Studies
course of the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. Topics are in the general
area of literature, film and culture in Africa.
• 2008: Panelist, “A Conversation on Contemporary African Cinema.” Baltimore Museum of Art.
February 3.
• 2007: Lecture/Screening: HOMECOMING (South Africa), CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY
(Guinea) and NDEYSAAN, THE PRICE OF FORGIVENESS (Senegal). University of
Richmond International Film Festival, Richmond, VA. November 2-3.
• 2007: Principal presenter, “African Cinema in a Time of Globalization.” Africa In Motion Film
Festival, Symposium on African Cinema: Art And/Or Industry? Center for African Studies,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. October 27.
• 2007: Keynote Address, Carlow African Film Festival Symposium on Imagining an Irish African
Cinema. Carlow, Ireland. October 15.
• 2007: Conductor, Film History and Criticism Workshop for Journalists. Amakula Kampala
Film Festival, Kampala, Uganda. May 1-3.
• 2007: Paper, “Lieux de Memoire and Ethiopian Cinema.” International Symposium on
Imaging Ethiopia: Monarchy and Modernity. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. April 20-21
• 2007: Invited participant, Festival Cinema Africano, Asia e America Latina, Milano, Italy.
March 19 – 24
• 2007: Organizer, Ghana@50 (Golden Jubilee of the Independence of Ghana). Howard
University, Washington, DC. March 6-7.
• 2007: Paper, “Oral Traditions, Literature and Film in Africa.” CODESRIA-FESPACO Workshop
on The Cinematographic Aesthetics and Culture of African Cinema. Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso. February 26 – March 1.
• 2007: Invited participant, 20 th . Festival PanAfricain du Cinema de Ouagadougou

(FESPACO). Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. February 24 – March 3.
• 2006: Conductor, Workshop on Film Appreciation for Journalists, Addis Ababa University,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. November 26-December 1.
• 2006: Moderator, Panel Discussion on the film BAMAKO (Abderahmane Sissako, Mali). With
Danny Glover, Emira Woods and Sameer Dossani. December 7.
• 2006: Conducted a Workshop, “Film Appreciation for Journalists.” School of Journalism and
Communications, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. November 27 – December 1.
• 2006: Moderator: Ngugi wa Thiong’O Reading Wizard of the Crow at Howard University,
Washington, DC , September 14
• 2006: Moderator and contributor, panel on “Reframing Tradition.” Africa In The Picture Film
Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. September 11
• 2006: Lecture, “Tradition and Modernity in African Cinema and Art.” Tama Art University,
Tokyo, Japan. July 17.
• 2006: Invited participant, Festival Cinema Africano di Milano, Milan, Italy. March 20-25.
• 2006: Lecture/Screening: PIECES D’IDENTITIES (Congolese film). Willamette University,
Salem, Oregon. February 23.
• 2006: Moderator, Post-screening discussion of the film TSOTSI (South Africa) with filmmaker
Gavin Hood and lead actor Pressley Tshwenegae. National Geographic Society, Washington,
DC. February 16.
• 2005: Invited participant, SITHENGI (Southern African Film and TV Market) and Cape Town
World Cinema Festival, Cape Town, South Africa. November 16 – 20.
• 2005: Invited participant, Festival Cinema Africano di Milano, Milan, Italy. March 14-20.
• 2005: Invited participant, PanAfrican Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO),
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. February 26 – March 5.
• 2004: Invited participant, SITHENGI (Southern African Film and TV Market), Cape Town,
South Africa. November 16 – 21.
• 2004: Lecture/screening: KARMEN GEI (Senegalese film), National Museum of African Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, October 28.
• 2003: Lecture/Screening of Adangamman (Cote d’Ivoire). Second Barbados Festival of
African and Caribbean Cinema. Bridgetown, Barbados. October 16.
• Presenter, Panel on African Cinema, Afrikake Networking Group, Erico Café, Washington, DC.
September 17.
• 2003: Moderated a panel on Contemporary African Cinema at the Africa In he Picture Film
Festival, Amsterdam, Holland. September 6.
• 2003: Invited participant, Festival Cinema Africano di Milano, Milan, Italy. March 24-28
• 2003: Invited Festival Participant, 18 th FESPACO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, February 22-
March 1.
• 2002: Lecture on Contemporary African Cinema at the Tokyo African Film Festival, Tokyo,
Japan. October 8-13.
• 2002: Member, Focus Group, WHUT-TV Africa Initiative. September 4.
• 2002: Paper, “Film and History: A Critical Survey of Current Trends and Tendencies.”
Presented at the First International Conference on Film and History, University of Cape Town,
South Africa. July 6-8.
• 2002: Conducted a seminar, Teaching Africa: Interdisciplinary Approaches, at the Faculty
Resource Network Summer Enrichment Seminar, New York University. June 10-14.
• 2002: Invited Participant, Festival Cinema Africano di Milano, Milan, Italy. March 15-21.
• 2002: Introduced and discussed Addangaman by Gnoan Mbala (Cote d’Ivoire). National
Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. February 8.
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• 2001: Panelist, African Cinema for and by Africans, Conference organized by the African
Script Development Fund, SITHENGI, Cape Town, South Africa. November 14.
• 2001: Lecture on African Cinema, University of Connecticut, Storrs. October 29.
• 2001: Conducted a one day workshop on Integrating African cinema into the Humanities
Curriculum, African Studies Program Faculty Development, Morgan State University,
Baltimore, MD. September 22.
• 2001: Panelist, Workshop on How to Teach African Cinema in a Multicultural Society, Africa
in the Picture Film Festival, Amsterdam, Holland. September 7.
• 2001: Delivered the opening lecture on the work of Djibril Diop Mambety at the launch of the
Mambety film series at the Labia Theater in Cape Town, Film Resource Unit, Cape Town,
South Africa. August 16.
• 2001: Organized and directed an NEH-funded workshop, Context and Significance of West
African Film: A Curriculum Workshop for HBCU Teachers, Dakar, Senegal. June 17-27.
• 2001: Panelist, African Identity and African American Identity, 2001 Festival of African Films,
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. April 28.
• 2001: Lecture, “Globalization and African Cinema,” 2001 Festival of African Films, University
of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. April 27.
• 2001: Paper, “Impotence and the Politics of Transformation in Ousmane Sembene’s XALA,”
African Film Conference, Seattle Art Museum, University of Washington, Seattle. April 21.
• 2001: Invited Festival participant, 11 th . Festival Cinema Africano di Milano. Milan, Italy. March
22-29. Participated in a workshop on African literature and film for Italian teachers. March 27.
• 2001: Invited Festival Participant, 17 th FESPACO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, February 24-
March 3.
• 2000: Moderator, “A Conversation With Issach de Bankole.” New York African Diaspora Film
Festival, Columbia University, New York City. December 7.
• 2000: Participant, SITHENGI (Southern African Film and Television Market), Cape Town,
South Africa. November 12-17.
• 2000: Panelist, Aesthetics of African Cinema, SITHENGI, Cape Town, South Africa.
November 15.
• 2000: Lecture, “Current Issues in African Cinema.” New Town Film and Television School,
Johannesburg, South Africa. November 21.
• 2000: Paper, “XALA and the Politics of Post-Coloniality in African Cinema.” Conference on
Ousmane Sembene, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados. April 7-9.
• 2000: Invited participant, 10 th . Festival Cinema Africano di Milano. Milan, Italy. March 24-30.
• 2000: Moderator and presenter, Symposium on Global Worlds, Local Realities: African
Films at the Threshold of the 3 rd Millennium. Cinema Afrika, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt,
Berlin, Germany. February 12.
• 2000: Moderator, Symposium on The Role of Cultural Identity in Contemporary African
Cinema: The Work of Sarah Maldoror. Cinema Afrika, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin,
Germany. February 11.
• 1999: Lecture: Africa in the Media and in the Film Industry. University of North Carolina-
Charlotte. March 31.
• 1999: Festival participant, 9 th . Festival Cinema Africano di Milano. Milan, Italy. March 19-25.
• 1999: President, Official Jury, Short Film Competition, 16 th FESPACO, Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso, February 27– March 6.
• 1999: Lecture/Screening: Film – Sango Malo (Cameroon). African Caribbean Film Festival,
Department of English and Department of Foreign languages, Morgan State University,
Baltimore. February 15.
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• 1999: Panel member. African Writers Panel, African Odyssey, Kennedy Center, Washington,
DC. February 6.
• 1998: Presenter, panel on UBUNTU, and member, Roundtable with Greek Artist, Takis, 7 th .
International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt. December 19.
• 1998: Lecture, “African Cinema in Asia: Possibilities and Challenges.” Workshop on Japanese
Literature and Humanities, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. December 11.
• 1998: Workshop on African Cinema. The Asia-Africa Connection Workshop, Asian Studies
Development Program, East-West Center and the University of Hawaii. November 12
• 1998: Presenter, Roundtable on African Cultural Cooperation and Development: Agenda for
the 21 st . Century. ASA Board and UBUNTU 2000-sponsored panel, Annual Meeting of the
African Studies Association, Chicago, IL. October 30.
• 1998: Presenter, panel on The Future of African Cinema in the US: Perspectives for the Next
Century. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC. October
11.
• 1998: President, Feature Films and Video Futures Jury, Southern African Film Festival,
Harare, Zimbabwe. September 26-October 1.
• 1998: Panel presenter, Film Finance Workshop, Southern African Film Festival, Harare,
Zimbabwe, September 29.
• 1998: Lecture/Screening: Gito L’Ingrat (Burundi). Newark Black Film Festival, Newark, NJ.
June 24.
• 1998: Conducted a 2 day faculty development workshop on African Cinema and Literature for
the Community College of Philadelphia, May 20-21.
• 1998: Paper, African Cinema and Civil Society: Looking Ahead to the Next Decade.
Conference ,“Africa and African Peoples in the Twenty First Century: The Second Struggle for
Independence.” Notre Dame University, May 8-10.
• 1998: Paper, African Cinema in the Nineties, Carter Lectures, African Cinema Conference,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. March 20-22. Paper read at the conference in
absentia.
• 1998: Seminar participant: Seminar on Visions of African Cultural Cooperation and
Development (Session on “Recasting Cultural Policies”), Stockholm, Sweden. March 30-April
1. Seminar held alongside the UNESCO Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for
Development, Stockholm, Sweden. March 30-April2.
• 1998: Panel presentation: Roundtable on Back to Africa: African American Filmmakers in
Search of their Roots. 8 th . African Cinema Festival of Milan, Milan, Italy. March 22.
• 1998: Panel presentation: Panel on The South Narrates and Represents Itself. International
Workshop, “United Colors of Media,” Milan, Italy. March 24.
• 1998: Conference presentation, Language Matters in African Writing: The Example of Chinua
Achebe.” Conference in honor of Sterling Brown, English Department, Howard University.
February 14.
• 1997: Advisory Committee, Francophonie Noire: Louisiana, Haiti, Senegal and the Bight of
Benin - The Roots and Evolution of the French-Speaking African Diaspora in America.
National Museum of American History, Science and Technology. Washington, DC. February 7
and 8. Also introduced and discussed the film, Sarabaa (Senegal).
• 1997: Panel Discussion, African and African-American Cinema, USIA WORLD-NET, Live TV
telecast to Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Maputo (Mozambique) and
Abuja (Nigeria). February 13.
• 1997: Keynote Lecture, “Experiences of African Cinema: An Introduction.” University of Ghana,
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Legon, Ghana. March 4. On the occasion of the African Humanities Institute seminar,
“Film/Video/Television and Socio-Economic Transformation in the African World.”
• 1997: Lecture, “Contemporary African Cinema and the Challenges of Culture in the Post-
Independence Era.” (In conjunction with film screening, La Vie Est Belle). Muhlenberg College,
Allentown, PA. March 31.
• 1997: Panel Discussion, Nuts and Bolts of Filmmaking. USIA WORLD-NET, Live TV telecast
to Abuja (Nigeria) on the occasion of a national seminar on filmmaking in Nigeria. April 9.
• 1997: Paper, “Revisioning the African Past: The Case of Sarraounia.” Wellesley College,
Wellesley, MA. Conference, “Recovering Benin.” April 11-12.
• 1997: “Literature and Cinema Are A Vital University Discipline.” Interviewed by Martin K.
Jumbam, Cameroon Post, No. 0062, Friday, May 23, p.9.
• 1997: Paper, “Constructions of Caribbean Identities in Film.” New York University, New York,
NY. Conference, “Caribbean Crossroads.” May 2-3.
• 1997: Participated in the Symposium of the West African Research Association (West Africa
and the Global Challenge) at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal, June 22 -
28.
• 1997: Participated in the 7 th . Edition of the Rencontres Cinematographiques de Dakar
(RECIDAK), June 26 - July 2, Dakar, Senegal.
• 1997: Lecture on African Cinema at the Newtown Film and Television School in
Johannesburg, South Africa. August 8.
• 1997: Conducted a workshop on African Cinema at Saint Joseph’s College in Rondebosch,
Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday. August 16.
• 1997: Graduate Students Seminar presentation, Center for Cultural and Media Studies,
University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. August 22.
• 1997: Panel Discussion, “Contemporary African Cinema.” Tokyo African Film Festival,
Tokyo, Japan. September 24.
• 1997: Lecture: “Ousmane Sembène: The Man and His Work.” African Film Festival,
Barcelona, Spain. September 30.
• 1997: Moderator, panel on “Interrelationships of Poetry and Art.” The Nsukka Group and the
State of Nigerian Contemporary Art Symposium, National Museum of African Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. October 19-20.
• 1996: Lecture: "Africa and the Cinema." African Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain. January 14.
• 1996: Lecture: "The Films of Ousmane Sembene." Covenant Baptist Church, Washington, DC.
February 5.
• 1996: Panel presenter: "World Beat Panel." The Movie/Music Mix Film Series. City College of
New York, New York. February 17.
• 1996: Panel moderator: "Rage in the USA: Black Independent Cinema in the USA." 6th.
Festival of African Cinema of Milan. Milan, Italy. March 24.
• 1996: Paper: "African Popular Culture and Cinema." Panel on African Popular Culture and Film.
Third New York African Film Festival, New York University. April 20.
• 1996: Coordinating Judge, Prized Pieces Film and Video Competition. National Black
Programming Consortium, Pittsburgh, PA. September 30.
• 1996: Advisory Committee, The Africa Media Project, Hopes on the Horizon: The Rise of the
New Africa (1945-1995). Blackside, Inc., Boston, MA. and FilmAfrica, Accra, Ghana. Boston,
MA. October 6.
• 1996: Production Seminar Presenter, Hopes on the Horizon. Blackside, Inc., Boston, MA.
November 16-17.
• 1995: Panel moderator and participant, "Can African Cinema Achieve the Same Level of
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Indigenization as Other Arts Forms?" Screen Griots: Africa and the History of Cinematic Ideas
Conference. London, The British Film Institute. September 22.
• 1995: Lecture: "African Cinema." Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, University
of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Md. October 5.
• 1995: Three pre-screening lectures on the films of Paul Robeson (Sanders of the River, King
Solomon's Mines, Song of Freedom). CinemAfrica Film Festival, Zurich, Switzerland. November
9, 10 and 11.
• 1995: Lecture: "Representations of Africa in the 'Africa Film' and in Early African Cinema."
Zurich, Switzerland. November 12.
• 1995: Lecture: "African Cinema in the Nineties." University of Utrech, Utrech, Holland.
November 24.
• 1995: Lecture: "African Cinema in the Nineties." Africa in the Picture Film Festival, Amsterdam,
Holland. November 26.
• 1995: Panel moderator: "The State of African Cinema." With Six African Filmmakers. Africa in
the Picture Film Festival, Amsterdam, Holland. November 26.
• 1994: Lecture: “Western Culture and African Development and Identity.” Conference, “Africa
into the Twenty First Century.” University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. February
13.
• 1994: Lecture/screening: film - Camp de Thiaroye (Senegal). Africana Studies Program,
Villanova University. February 16.
• 1994: Lecture: “African Cinema.” Africana Studies Program, Hamilton College, Hamilton, NY.
April 21.
• 1994: Lecture/screening: film - Guelwaar (Senegal). Film Series, “On Page, On Screen:
African and African American Literature & Film.” Black Heritage Reference Center, Langston
Highes Community Library and Cultural Center, New York, NY. May 14.
• 1993: Lectures on contemporary African Cinema, and participant in the panel "Malcolm X and
Africa." TAMA LIFE 21 African Film Festival of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. October 17-24.
• 1993: Lectures/Screenings - 5 films by Haile Gerima. "Haile Gerima Retrospective." National
Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. October 2, 9, 16, 30.
• 1993: Participated in the 3ème Rencontres Cinématographiques de Dakar (RECIDAK), Dakar,
Senegal. June 18-24.
• 1993: Lecture/Screening - film: Ava & Gabriel (Curaçao). Museum of Moving Images, New
York. May 29.
• 1993: Lecture/Screening - film: Bal Poussière (Cote d'Ivoire). Brooklyn Museum of Art. May 1.
• 1993: Panel presentation: Panel, “The Films of Ousmane Sembène,” New York African Film
Festival, Lincoln Center, April 8.
• 1993: "African Oral and Written Traditions." 3 lectures at Long Island University. NEHsponsored
faculty development seminar on "Classic Non-Western Texts." Long Island
University, Long Island, N.Y., March 30, April 13 and May 11.
• 1993: Lecture: "African Cinema and Society in the Nineties." Lecture at Syracuse University,
Syracuse, N.Y., March 18.
• 1993: Conference presentation: "Current Trends in African Cinema." Paper presented at
Cornell University. Conference: “Creative Impulses/Modern Expressions: African Arts Today,”
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., March 12-13.
• 1993: Member, Television and Video Jury, 13th. Festival Panafricain du Cinéma de
Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, February 19-28.
• 1992: Member, Grand Jury, Milan 2nd. Festival of African Cinema, Milan, Italy. March 14-22.
Also participated in the “Roundtable on Oral Traditions and African Cinema. “
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• 1992: Lecture on Caribbean Cinema. Lunch Time Author Series, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Library, Washington, D.C. February 18.
• 1992: Radio interview: “African Literature.” Interviewed by E. Ethelbert Miller, host of “Maiden
Voyage,” WDCU-FM. March 23.
• 1991: Lecture: "Cinema and Post-Coloniality: The Case of Ousmane Sembène's Xala."
University of Texas at Austin. November 21.
• 1991: Lecture/Screening: film - Sarabaa (Senegal). Neighborhood Film Project, International
House, Philadelphia, Pa. November 14.
• 1991: Paper: "Deconstruction of Self and Other in Ousmane Sembène's Camp de Thiaroye."
International conference on "The Question of the Other," hosted by the Department of
Comparative Literature, S.U.N.Y.-Binghamton, N.Y. October 31-November 2.
• 1991: Lecture/screening: films - Touki Bouki (Senegal) and Camp de Thiaroye (Senegal).
Third Annual African American Film Festival: Classic, Cult and Contemporary. Baltimore Film
Forum. Baltimore Museum of Art. June 6 and June 14, respectively.
• 1991: Lecture/screening: film - Yaaba (Burkina Faso). This is My World: Black Children in
International Cinema Series. Maryland National Park and Planning Commission. Harmony
Hall, Fort Washington, Md. February 13.
• 1991: Panel presentation: "Partnership in African Cinema." XII Festival PanAfricain du Cinema
de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa. February 21-March
2.
• 1991: Lecture: "Cinema in Contemporary South Africa." State University of New York at
Buffalo, N.Y. January 29.
• 1990: Panel presentation: "African Cinema and U.S. Black Independent Film Movement."
Prized Pieces International Film and Video Festival, National Black Programming Consortium,
Columbus, Ohio. Nov 8.
• 1990: Class lecture: "Language in African Literature." The College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA. October 9.
• 1990: Lecture: "African Literature and Cinema in Contemporary African Society." The College
of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. October 9.
• 1990: Lecture: "African Cinema in the Nineties." Lecture to inaugurate the course and film
series, “Windows on the World: Maghrib and Mashriq: Africa North of the Sahara.” University
of Wisconsin-Madison. June 19 and 20.
• 1990: Lecture: "The Novels of Mariama Ba and African Women Writers.” Center for the Study
of Black Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. June 15 and 16.
• 1990: Lectures: "The Nature of African Literature" and "Literature in Kenya." Fulbright-Hayes
Group Projects Abroad, Afro-American and African Studies Department, University of North
Carolina-Charlotte. May 5.
• 1990: Conference presentation: "Official History - Popular Memory: Reconfigurations of the
African Past in the Films of Ousmane Sembène." Conference on “The Dialects of Form and
Content in the Work of Ousmane Sembène,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Organized by the Five Colleges. April 14.
• 1990: Lecture/screening: film - Mapantsula (South Africa) and Jom (Senegal) at Columbia
University, NY. March 30.
• 1990: Panel presentation: "The Emergence of African Nationalism and the Development of an
African Film Aesthetics." Studio Museum in Harlem. March 3.
• 1989: Lecture/screening: film - “West Indies: Les Nègres Marrons de la Liberté”
(France/Mauritania). “African Accents ’89,” University of Maryland-College Park. November
27.
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• 1989: Lecture/screening: “Film in South Africa.” Film - Mapantsula (South Africa). “Black Film
Times 3,” Black Film Institute, Washington, DC. November 6.
• 1989: Moderator and presenter: Panel, “Contemporary African Cinema.” African Studies
Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. November 4.
• 1989:Panel presentation: “Reflections on African Literature and Film.” Film program, “Igbo
Insights: Things Fall Apart.” National Museum of African Art. Washington, DC. September 10.
• 1989: Coordinator of film series, African Literature Association Annual Conference, Dakar,
Senegal. March 20-23.
• 1989: Invited participant, Festival PanAfricain du Cinéma de Ouagadougou (FESPACO),
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Febraury 25 - March 4.
• 1989: Lecture/screening: film - Mandabi (Senegal). Second Annual Romance Languages
Film/Lecture Series, Howard University. February 21.
• 1989: Lectures: “Overview of African Literature.” Center for Immigration Policy and Refugee
Assistance, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. January 6 and January 9.
• 1989: Course: African Literature. Institute for Policy Studies ( The Washington School:
Continuing Education in Politics, Ideas and Culture), Washington, DC. January.
• 1988: Lecture/screening: film - Faces of Women (Cote d’Ivoire). The Winston-Salem Cinema
Society, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. December 16.
• 1988: Lecture/screening: film - Harvest: 3000 Years (Ethiopia). National Museum of African
Art, Washington, DC. November 18.
• 1988: Radio interview: “African cinema” (in connection with the African Film Series of the
National Museum of African Art). WHUR-FM - Insight, hosted by Leonard Harris. October 21.
On WDCU-FM - Crosstalk, hosted by Ernest White. November 9.
• 1988: Lecture/screening: film - Jom: The Story of a People (Senegal). Black Heritage
Reference Center, Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, New York, NY.
October 22.
• 1988: Panel member: “The Aesthetics of African Cinema.” National Museum of African Art,
Washington, DC. October 16.
• 1988: Panel presentation: “The Role of the Writer in Africa.” Symposium, “Njikoka:
Togetherness is Greater.” National Black Programming Consortium, Columbus, Ohio. October
7-8. Also moderated a panel and served as respondent to the film Mandela by Mable
Haddock.
• 1988: Lecture: “African Cinema.” Department of African American Studies, University of
Maryland-Baltimore County. September 22.
• 1988: Lectures: “Overview of African Literature.” Center for Immigration Policy and Refugee
Assistance, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. June 29 and July 11.
• 1988:Lecture: “Current Trends in African Literature and Film.” University of California, Santa
Barbara. May 16.
• 1988: Paper: "Oral Traditions in African film." Panel on “Themes, Issues and Social Realities in
African Cinema,” Filmfest DC, April 29.
• 1988: Chairman: panel on "The Aesthetics of Black Independent Film," Celebration of Black
Cinema 5, Boston, Mass. April 11.
• 1988: Chairman: panel on "Broadcast Literature in Africa." African Literature Association
Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA., April 7.
• 1988: Presenter of West Africa segment of the 8 th . Annual Atlanta Third World Film Festival
(films: Naitou, La Vie Est Belle, Yeleen and Sarraounia), and lectured on “FESPACO 1987:
The State of African Cinema.” Atlanta, Georgia. March 17-19.
• 1987: Moderator: Panel, “The Hijacking of the Story of our Heroes: The Commercial Cyclops
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Turns its Blood-Shot Eye on Africa and the Developing World.” Howard University School of
Communications Annual Conference, Continuing Education & Community Service Programs.
Washington, DC. February 19.
• 1987: Paper: "African Oral Traditions and Cinema: A Case Study of the Work of Ousmane
Sembene." Colloquium on “Oral Traditions and the New Media,” 10th FESPACO,
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, February 23-25.
• 1987: Moderator and Discussion Leader, Madmen and Specialists (Wole Soyinka). “Home:
Theater for New Columbia.” Source Theater Mainstage, Washington, DC. March 30.
• 1987: Participant in the panel on “The Reception and Impact of The Africans in the U.S. and
Africa.” African Literature Conference, Cornell University, April 9.
• 1987: Lecture/screening: film - Mandabi (Senegal). Institute for Policy Studies,
Washington, D.C., April 14.
• 1987: Lecture: "Islam and the Creative Imagination in Senegal." Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut. April 20.
• 1987: Conducted a workshop on "West African Literature: An Insight into the West African
Mind." The BCIU Institution, The American University, Washington, D.C. May 29.
• Prepared materials and critical perspectives on African Literature for use in the assessment of
“Low Resource Agriculture for Africa,” a project of the US Congress Office of technology
Assessment (OTA), Food and Renewable Resources Project. May.
• 1987: Conducted a workshop on "The Oral Traditions and Written Literatures of Africa: A Case
study of Kenya and Cameroon." Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi. International
Experience in Kenya, East Africa, Summer 1987: Training Sessions for Mississippi Junior
College Educators. June 23.
• 1987: Judge, Seventh Annual Prized Pieces International Film and Video Competition.
National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC)., Columbus, Ohio. October 13 - 17.
• 1987: Conference presentation: "Oral Traditions, Literature and Film in Africa: Reflections on a
Relationship." 25th Anniversary Celebration of the African Studies Program, University of
Wisconsin, Madison. African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin,
October 26.
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