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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 ...
Xala. 1975. An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 novel, Xala is a hilarious, caustic satire of political corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government official El Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has placed a curse on him.
May 21, 2024 · The first and most devastating of these films, Emitaï, is set in 1942, in Sembène’s native Casamance region, and tracks a moment of anticolonial resistance. During World War II, France forcibly conscripted Africans into its army, a policy that was accompanied by a system of heavy taxation.
Nov 5, 2015 · The Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene (1923–2007), often called the father of African cinema, had a seismic career. He effectively created an African film industry out of nothing: In 1963 ...
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Jan 31, 2023 · As we celebrate his 100th year and rediscover his films, we can gain a better understanding of Sembène, and the themes of his work, by looking at the turns his life took that led him to cinema ...
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Jun 7, 2021 · La Noire de… (Black Girl, 1966), Sembène’s first feature-length film, is a powerful exploration of immigrant experience. Thérèse Mbissine Diop – who recently returned to acting for Maïmouna Doucouré’s coming-of-age film Cuties (2020) – delivers a stunning performance as Diouana, a young Senegalese girl moving to France to work for a married couple, only to find herself ...
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Aug 3, 2023 · Many will know Sembène’s career as a film-maker via its beginning and its end: Black Girl (1966) and Mandabi (1968) became internationally famous, and his colourful swan song Moolaadé, which ...
