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‘Dahomey’ Review: Mati Diop Tracks the Return of African Royal Treasures Plundered by French Colonists in Powerful Consideration of Reparations

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‘Dahomey’ Review: Mati Diop Tracks the Return of African Royal Treasures Plundered by French Colonists in Powerful Consideration of…


With her mesmerizing 2019 debut feature, the lyrical Senegalese ghost story Atlantics, as well as the nonfiction project that preceded it, A Thousand Suns, Mati Diop jumped to the forefront of diasporic Black European directors reclaiming their ancestral African roots. The director’s own path as a…

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