Senegalese singer Baaba Maal, who’ll answer questions and play a short acoustic set on Saturday at the Chicago Cultural Center, changes course yet again on his new album.
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Black World Cinema
A champion wrestler rescues an upper class young man from robbers and recruits the youth for his wrestling group, against the wishes of his pacifist mother in Senegalese documentarian Cheikh Ndiaye’s 2006 debut fiction feature Wrestling Ground, playing Thursday in the monthly Black World Cinema screening series. Wrestling Ground screens Thursday at 7 PM at […]
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Blood money
A wronged woman returns to her village for revenge in Djibril Diop Mambety’s Senegalese satire of colonialism “Hyenas,” screening tonight in the Black World Cinema series at Chatham 14.
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Did you even read the column you wrote?
Mary Mitchell and Carol Slezak should have reread their own columns before publishing them.