Lawrence Main Hall Forum Discusses Societal Representations in African Cinema

APPLETON, WIS. -- Lifongo Ventinde, assistant professor of French at Lawrence University, explores the use of cinema by indigenous filmmakers in shaping representations of modern African society in the Lawrence Main Hall Forum, "Contemporary African Cinema and the Postcolonial Condition."

Ventinde's address, Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 4:30 p.m. in Main Hall, Room 202, is free and open to the public.

While cinema was originally used by Western filmmakers to reinforce stereotypical Western views of Africa, Ventinde will illustrate how contemporary African filmmakers from Burkina Faso, Senegal and Zimbabwe have increasingly turned to cinema to portray societal and cultural realities such as displacement and dispossession through their own camera lenses.