Negritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka And Senghor Film

Synopsis

This imagined dialogue between Léopold Sédar Senghor, first president of independent Senegal and one of the founding fathers of the pan-African philosophy of Negritude, and Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka was reconstructed almost entirely from archival materials. It probes the relevance of the concept of Negritude against the views of its many critics, not only to the decolonisation and independence movements of the 1950s and 60s but also to an understanding of the contemporary artistic and political movements of nationalism, religious intolerance and multiculturalism. It further asks questions about the exodus of Africans and other populations from the south, and the immigration policies of the west.