By dint of eyeing the other side of the ring road, today Mame-Fatou Niang is thinking across the Atlantic. The precious word of Miss Nianglecturer at the Carnegy Mellon University of Pittsburgh, begins with Virginia Woolf, continues with the black laugh (which will become a Memoir) and by the representation of the peripheries in contemporary French literature and cinema.
Because “The falling tree makes more noise than the growing forest. our Franco-Senegalese intellectual has unsheathed her famous documentary Black Marianas and she comes back to us with a little bomb of 100 pages, co-written with Julien Suaudeau, soberly titled Universalisma white humanist concept powerfully interrogated by a postcolonial consciousness… Welcome to Mame Fatou Niang who walks like a ambassador of dialogue.
Mame Fatou Niang’s musical choices:
Baaba Maal + Taj Mahal – “Trouble Sleep Yanga Wakam»