'Europe is not my centre. Europe is an outskirt of Africa.'
The towering Ousmane Sembène, film maker/writer, leading the way for us.
His novel Les bouts de bois de Dieu/God's Bits of Wood (1960 tr. 1962) focuses on colonial repression most remarkably.
'Europe is not my centre. Europe is an outskirt of Africa.'
The towering Ousmane Sembène, film maker/writer, leading the way for us.
His novel Les bouts de bois de Dieu/God's Bits of Wood (1960 tr. 1962) focuses on colonial repression most remarkably.
"In Xala, the powers that be in Senegal have lost sight of the revolutionary fervor felt in Emitaï , and through Sembène's acerbic lens, that once glittering promise becomes little more than a bitter joke."
"In Xala, the powers that be in Senegal have lost sight of the revolutionary fervor felt in Emitaï , and through Sembène's acerbic lens, that once glittering promise becomes little more than a bitter joke."
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