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Free Pizza and Film Screening
5-7 pm Tuesday, May 3rd
Haldeman 041
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Please join us for a discussion and screening of the film "Afrique, je te plumerai"  
with Professor Ayo Coly, as part of the Great Issues Scholar-organized series  
"A Month of International Issues."

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"Afrique, je te plumerai" is an overview of 100 years of cultural imperialism  
in Africa. Director Jean-Marie Teno uses Cameroon, the only African country colonized  
by three European powers, for a case study of the devastation of traditional African  
societies by imposed colonial cultures. This film will make the cultural and intellectual  
conflicts of present-day Africa easier to understand.

Ayo Coly, associate professor of African and African-American studies and of Comparative  
Literature, is the recipient of The John M. Manley Huntington Award for Newly  
Tenured Faculty, in recognition of outstanding merit. Her research interests include  
African literatures and cinema, postcolonial theory, colonial and postcolonial  
masculinities, and human rights. She has written "The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood:  
Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures," and is currently completing  
the book, "Un/Clothing African Womanhood: The Female Body in African Visual Discourses."