Situation I: Sartre and African Modernism
1. In My Home
2. Williams Sassine on Afro-Pessimism Situation

Situation II: Richard Wright and Modern Africa
3. Cémoko's Sékou Touré

4. Return Narratives Djibril Tamsir Niane's Sundiata
Salif Kéita's Mandjou
Afro-Kitsch and Woodstock in Bamako
Toumani Diabaté: A Kora Master

Situation III: Malcolm X: Conversionists versus Culturalists
5. The Shape of the Future
Modernity Is in Evil Forest
Culture and Nationalism as Resistance to Globalization
The Markets in West Africa and the Devaluation of the CFA Franc
How to Compete

6. Finding Sidimé Laye

7. Africa's Art of Resistance
Blinded by My Loss
The Curse of the Masks
The Fang Byeri Statue as Primitive Art
Chéri Samba: The Stereotype Strikes Back
Sidimé Laye's Song of Resistance

8. Sidimé Laye One Year Later

Situation IV: Homeboy Cosmopolitan
The Homeboy and the Myth of Cain
The Black Man in Bondage: The Construction of Mobility in Superfly and Shaft
Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It
The 'Hood in Spike Lee's Cinema
Homeboys and the Reclaiming of the Stereotype in Black Film
Toward a New Common Ground and Mentality

References

Index

Manthia Diawara is Professor of Comparative Literature and Film, as well as Director of Africana Studies and the Institute of African American Affairs at New York University. He is the founder and editor of Black Renaissance Noire.