You are invited to an exceptional event: a screening of "Noirs en France" with award-winning author and UCLA Professor Alain Mabanckou.
Mabanckou will present his documentary and answer questions from the audience (in French). This Q&A will be followed by a screening of "Noirs en France" (in French, with English subtitles).
Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet and academic. A French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he currently teaches literature and creative writing in the Department of French & Francophone Studies and African Studies Center at UCLA. Known for his novels and nonfiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France, Mabanckou is among the most recognized Franco African writers in France in contemporary literature.