The Ruby is a catalyst for creativity and a home for making art at Duke.
The Ruby is a catalyst for creativity and a home for making art at Duke.
Screening
African Film Festival: Namballa Keita: A Soldier and His Village
Open To The Public
A young man is determined to recover from the trauma of World War II by forging a better future for his people through education. Filmmaker Cherif Keita will join the screening for a Q&A after the film.
Filmmaker Cherif Keita, William H. Laird Professor of French and the Liberal Arts, French and Francophone Studies at Carleton College, will be joining us for the screening and a post-film Q&A session.
Namballa Keita: A Soldier and His Village is the story of a young visionary, who was determined to recover from the trauma of WWII by forging a better future for his people through education. It invites us also to ponder the dystopian reality of our “independent” African nations gripped by a crisis of fanaticisms caused by the demise of the very school system that once carried the hope of Namballa Keita and his generation.
This screening of Namballa Keita: A Soldier and His Village is part of the African Film Festival presented by Duke’s Africa Initiative, a division of the Center for International & Global Studies, which takes places through the month of February.