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“A Meditation on the Stigmas of Colonization”: Mati Diop on Dahomey

A man raises his hand at a group meeting.Dahomey

Mati Diop likes summoning spirits. In 2019’s Cannes-premiering Atlantics, the ghosts of young Senegalese men lost in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Dakar come back to haunt people in their bid to demand what is rightfully theirs. In…  Read more

By Dec 9, 2024


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