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AFRICAN SPIRITUALITIES: AI: AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE

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  • Thu, Feb 27

Director: Manthia Diawara Run Time: 110 min. Release Year: 2023

Starring: Diyé Dia, Jean-Paul Colleyn, Makhou Lebougui, Marymata Seck, Raoul Frese

Granted rare access to Ndeup, a spiritual healing ceremony practiced by Lebou peoples in Senegal, filmmaker and writer Manthia Diawara–with input from a cadre of scientists and academics–wonders what connections, if any, can be made between the possession ritual and Western logic. A.I. African Intelligence imagines generative ways of utilizing and thinking about “machine learning,” which Diawara fears might otherwise elide specific cultural practices like Ndeup. AI: African Intelligence is part two of a two-part series called AFRICAN SPIRITUALITIES curated by Zenzelé Clarke and Third World News Reel.

BRITT SANKOFA is a filmmaker, writer, and artist from Washington DC. Her works have been featured in the SAAM ‘Women Filmmakers Festival” (2019), Virginia Film Festival (2018), Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival (2019), and the Afrikana Independent Film Festival (2017, 2019). Britt has a huge passion for black history and cinema and works towards building
relationships between the two.

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