L’acteur Danny Glover et le réalisateur Manthia Diawara voyagent à travers l’Afrique de l’ouest, de Gorée (Sénégal) au pays Dogon (Mali), en échangeant des réflexions sur les liens entre les différents parties et divergences de la diaspora africaine. Diaspora Conversations trace un voyage de la mémoire et interroge le tourisme culturel.

Actor Danny Glover and director Manthia Diawara travel through West Africa from Goree to Dogon, creating conversations that link different sides and accounts of the African diaspora. « Diaspora Conversations » traces a journey of memory. Traversing through various locales, it negotiates between the current impact of globalization and the historical questions that both confront and facilitate community. Diawara’s prose-like narrative guides the viewer through this video diary that examines the conflicting, yet mutually intersecting, legacies of colonialism and cultural tradition. Both anthropology and recollection, « Diaspora Conversations » travels a terrain that provokes the viewer to interrogate « cultural tourism ».