The Senegalese-French director is a master storyteller with films like Dahomey and Atlantics weaving the supernatural with the real.
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Director of African Studies, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Kalamazoo College
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg
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Curator of Canadian and African Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies, University of Strathclyde