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We are pleased to invite you to the launch of Act II, L’Almamy Samori Touré – An Unmade Film by Ousmane Sembène, decomposed, disarranged and reproduced by Chimurenga, and hosted by RAW Material Company as part of the 14th edition of Partcours. The program will run as follows

Monday December 08:
/ 5 p.m. | Opening session, on popular music and the production of history — Ibrahima Wane with Ntone Edjabe

Wednesday December 10:
/ 5 p.m. | On two unrealised historical films, Kattan & Talatay Nder – William Ousmane Mbaye and Pape Samba Kane with Aboubacar Demba Cissokho
/ 7 p.m. | A listening session inspired by Abdoulaye Sadji’s essay “Ce que dit la musique africaine” — with Ibrahima Wane, Felwine Sarr and Ntone Edjabe

Thursday December 11:
/ 5 p.m. | On his journey alongside Sembène, the preservation of his work and memory – Clarence Delgado with Aboubacar Demba Cissokho
/ 6 p.m. | On Daaray Sembène, Thies, and the Ousmane Sembène Association and its traveling evening school – Hadja Maimouna Niang and Magueye Kasse with Fatou Kandé Senghor
/ 7.30 p.m. | On collaborating with Ousmane Sembène on Samori – Moustapha Ndiaye aka Picasso with Ntone Edjabe

Friday December 12: The Guinean cultural socialist revolution and its discontents; African history as a problem
/ 3.30 p.m. | On African historiography – Babacar Buuba Diop with lbrahima Wane
/ 5 p.m. | Three takes on the writing of Samori – Moses Marz, Fatoumata Sagnane and Ntone Edjabe
/ 6.30 p.m. | On writing history as fiction – Boris Boubacar Diop with Aboubacar Demba Cissokho

Saturday December 13: On theatre, fashion and the arts in the production of history, the case of “l’École de Dakar” (The Dakar School)
/ 3.30 p.m. | African history in theatre, cinema, and fashion — Lamine Seyba Traoré and Oumou SY with Madiaw Ndiaye
/ 5.30 p.m. | On the work and life of Alpha Waly Diallo – Massamba Mbaye with Babacar Mbaye Diop
/ 6:30 p.m. | African cinema and the archive of the unfinished – Eva Munyiri and Annabelle Aventurin with Ntone Edjabe.