Description

Mamadou Dia is a Senegalese award-winning film director, screenwriter, former journalist and professor at the University of Virginia, US. He will give a seminar at the Department of Conflict & Development on the role of filmmaking in understanding contentious politics, in this case politico-religious extremism. Based on his internationally awarded film “Baamum Nafi”, shot in his own hometown in Northern Senegal, Prof. Dia will discuss how filmmaking can open new avenues to locally discuss, and understand from the bottom-up, the impact of  global political dynamics on our community relations and family dynamics.