{"id":9061,"date":"2018-03-17T20:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9061"},"modified":"2018-03-17T20:30:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T02:30:54","slug":"touki-bouki-inspires-beyonce-jay-z-tour-art","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/touki-bouki-inspires-beyonce-jay-z-tour-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegalese 1973 classic film Touki Bouki inspires Beyonc\u00e9 &amp; Jay-Z tour art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"program--This is Culture programBlockHeader\">Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z\u2019s announcement of a joint tour called On The Run II features promotional art inspired by Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mamb\u00e9ty.<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<section class=\"article__body\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article-content__text article-content__left-column\">\n<div class=\"teads-inread sm-screen\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"teads-ui-components-credits\">The image features the pair sitting on a motorbike with a cow skull on the handlebars, echoing Mamb\u00e9ty\u2019s 1973 film Touki Bouki.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Social media users have been pointing out the reference and<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajindey\/status\/973278296401240069<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BgOxeW1hqMT\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BgOzjqBB0XD\/<\/p>\n<div class=\"oceanwp-oembed-wrap clr\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beyonce and Jay Z pay tribute to my son&#39;s godfather, Djibril Diop Mambety, whose film <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ToukiBouki?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ToukiBouki<\/a> is shaking up the world 45 years after it was made. Some of us knew magic when we saw it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/blackworldcinema?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blackworldcinema<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/blackartmatters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blackartmatters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bj9TAiIzo6\">pic.twitter.com\/Bj9TAiIzo6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; floydwebb (@floydwebb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/floydwebb\/status\/973477084227145728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Djibril Diop Mamb\u00e9ty was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet.<\/p>\n<p>Mambety\u2019s films received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style.<\/p>\n<p>Touki Bouki (The Hyena\u2019s Journey) is considered by many to be his most important film.<\/p>\n<p>It tells the story of two lovers, Mory and Anta, who fantasize about fleeing Dakar for a mythic and romanticized France. The film follows them as they mobilise the required funds for travel. They both make it to the steamliner that would transport them to Paris, but before it disembarks, Mory is drawn back to Dakar and cannot succumb to the seduction of the West.<\/p>\n<p>Touki Bouki won the Special Jury Award at the Moscow film Festival, the International Critics Award at Cannes and was ranked #52 in Empire magazines \u201cThe 100 Best Films Of World Cinema\u201d in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>While the globally acclaimed power couple are yet to officially explain the reference as used on the promotional poster, Beyonc\u00e9 has in the past referenced a number of African cultures including Yoruba deities during her performance at last year\u2019s Grammy awards in the US.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9067\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1024x576_443607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1024x576_443607.jpg 800w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1024x576_443607-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1024x576_443607-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1024x576_443607-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1024x576_443607-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1024x576_443607-969x545.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>&#8211; AfricaNews<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z\u2019s announcement of a joint tour called On The Run II features promotional art inspired by Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mamb\u00e9ty. The image features the pair sitting on a motorbike with a cow skull on the handlebars, echoing Mamb\u00e9ty\u2019s 1973 film Touki Bouki. Social media users have been pointing out the reference and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[319,322],"class_list":["post-9061","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-entertainment","news-category-world","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senegalese 1973 classic film Touki Bouki inspires Beyonc\u00e9 &amp; Jay-Z tour art<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senegalese 1973 classic film Touki Bouki inspires Beyonc\u00e9 &amp; Jay-Z tour art\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/touki-bouki-inspires-beyonce-jay-z-tour-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senegalese 1973 classic film Touki Bouki inspires Beyonc\u00e9 &amp; 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