On Thursday, April 19th at 6:30pm, join the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's Rewind series and AFF as we present a screening and discussion of Kemtiyu, Cheikh Anta by Ousmane William Mbaye. This is event is part of our city-wide pre 25th New York African Film Festival (#NYAFF25) celebration! 

Special programming

A talk back with Senegalese scholar and historian Mamadou Diouf and jazz musician and music composer for Kemtiyu, Randy Weston, moderated by multimedia journalist and the CEO of Afrikanspot, Isseu Diouf Campbell

About the Film

“The Universal Man,” “The Capital Contemporary,” “The Giant of Knowledge,” “The Last Pharaoh”: those were some of the newspaper headlines the day after the death of Senegalese historian, doctor, and politician Cheikh Anta Diop on February 7, 1986. Kemtiyu is a portrait of this trailblazing scholar—venerated by some, derided by others, and unknown to most—an honest, enlightened political figure who had an insatiable thirst for science and knowledge.
About Ousmane William Mbaye

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