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Boubakar Boris Diop and Marie Angelique Savané on MANDABI

Mandabi • 19m

In the following conversation, recorded in Dakar, Senegal, in October 2020, novelist, journalist, and screenwriter Boubacar Boris Diop and sociologist and feminist activist Marie Angélique Savané discuss the impact of MANDABI’s original release in Africa.

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