Howard University
Camille Dantzler is a doctoral researcher with an expertise in African film and literature, gender studies, critical race theory, public policy, and critical trauma studies. She has held multiple research fellowships, including the Frederick Douglass Doctoral Fellowship, Just-Julian Research Fellowship, and Sasakwa Young Leaders Foundation Fellowship.
Creative Activism and the Works of Rwandan Women Filmmakers
This analysis is concerned with the progression of the Rwandan film industry as a complex spatial indication of wider gendered and socio-political contexts in post genocide Rwanda and abroad. Films discussed will include Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo's "A Place for Myself," Ndimbira Claudine Shenge's "She," and Amelia Umuhire's "Mugabo."
Sessions
Topics on Africa