Change and Continuity in the Sahel

Join Met curator Alisa LaGamma for a conversation with Manthia Diawara, a writer, filmmaker, and leading scholar of the African diaspora, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara. Explore the tensions between West Africa's traditions and modernity as LaGamma and Diawara draw from the exhibition and from one of Diawara's signature texts, In Search of Africa, which was shaped by his formative experiences in Guinea, Mali, and Senegal.

In the historical translation of the Sundiata epic the disabled hero Sundiata is described with traditional terminology employed in the Sahel, which differs from commonly accepted disability terminology in the US.

Music: “Salaman” by Toumani Diabaté with Ballake Sissoko, from the album New Ancient Strings, courtesy Reservoir Media Management (Label) (on behalf of Chrysalis Records)

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