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Sada Niang

Sada Niang
Position
Professor
French and Francophone Studies
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Credentials

PhD (York)

Area of expertise

Linguistics, semantics, African and Caribbean literatures

Sada Niang is  Professor of French and Francophone Studies. He holds a Ph.D  from York University (Downsview, Ontario). His recent work focuses on postcolonial cinema, the cinema of Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa,  Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) and Francophone women’s films.

 

Specializations

French and Francophone sub-Saharan literatures. African cinemas. Documentary filmmaking in Africa; African women documentary filmmakers of Francophone Africa; Fiction and documentary filmmaking in Africa.

 

Research projects

 2011-2014 :  SSHRC General Research Grant. Cinémas africains et dynamiques du populaire Sada Niang (Principal Investigator); Alexie Tcheuyap (University of Toronto) co-investigator.

 2018-2021 : SSHRC Insight Grant Pratiques du cinéma documentaire en Afrique subsaharienne francophone Alexie Tcheuyap (University of Toronto) Principal investigator, Suzanne Crosta McMaster University, Sada Niang (IßÉßɱ¬ÁÏ) Co investigators

Selected publications

Djibril Diop Mambéty : un cinéaste à contre courant. (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2002) 238 p. [Text+interviews of the main actors in Diop’s films]         

Reviewed in African Studies Review; Vol.46, Issue 2, p.154, 2p. Online, see web site:

Reviewed in Notre Librairie; 149, p.136, 1 page.

Djibril Diop Mambéty, Cineasta Africano. (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Casa Africa, 2011), 83 pages. (Spanish Translation of a shortened version of Djibril Diop Mambéty : un cinéaste à contre courant, 2002)

Ousmane Sembene: Viatique pour l’éternité, Coedited with samba Gadjigo. (Dakar,  Papyrus, 2010)

Nationalist African Cinema: Legacy and Transformations: (Lanham,  Rowman Littlewood Press, 2014).

Fatou Diome, Une écrivaine de son temps. Special issue of Présence Francophone. No. 92, 2019. Coedited with Khady Fall-Diagne

Courses taught

  • FRAN 220  (French Phonetics)
  • FRAN 420 (Francophone Literatures and Cultures)
  • FRAN 517  (Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures and cinema)