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Sembène's third and most famous novel is Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu (God's Bits of Wood, 1960); [2] most critics consider it his masterpiece, rivaled only by Xala. The novel is a fictional treatment of the railroad strike on the Dakar-Niger line, which lasted from 1947 to 1948. Though the charismatic and brilliant union spokesman, Ibrahima ...
Having blazed a trail for African filmmakers to tell their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unlock cinema’s potential as a vehicle for social change—in increasingly urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s.
May 21, 2024 · Moving from revolutionary drama to postcolonial satire to historical epic, Sembène developed a potent anticolonial discourse. Though Emitaï, Xala, and Ceddo are each set in a different period, together they enact a spellbinding demonstration of Sembène’s ability to critically evaluate the unfolding of Senegalese history.
As a founding member of the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI), and a co-founder of the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), he helped pave the way for independent and radical African cinema to stand its ground against Western cultural imperialism.
Nov 5, 2015 · He effectively created an African film industry out of nothing: In 1963, with a used 16mm camera and leftover film stock sent by friends from Europe, he made a short called Borom Sarret (The...
Jan 31, 2023 · Sembène (1923-2007) was deeply motivated by a need for political and social change. He was equally a fierce critic of colonialism and its legacies, the post-independence realities across...
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Jun 9, 2024 · Synopsis. Having blazed a trail for African filmmakers to tell their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unlock cinema’s potential as a vehicle for social change—in increasingly urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s.
