When African filmmaker Ousmane Sembene died at 84 in Dakar, Senegal, earlier this month, the world duly took note. Sembene had lived a remarkable life that spanned most of the 20th century and beyond, ...

Even foreign film aficionados might not be able to reel off a list of classic African cinema or tell you why artists such as Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène are said to be creating some of ...

A historic confrontation in 1965 between Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembène : "You look at us as if we were insects" / Albert Cervoni -- Ousmane Sembène : for me, the cinema is an instrument of political ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

'70s Week: Ousmane Sembène’s "Xala" and Souleymane Cissé’s "Baara" revel in caustic humor and the comeuppance of corrupt leaders to explore the class struggles of post-independent African nations.

Originally published in The short century: independence and liberation movements in Africa, 1945-1994 (Munich: Prestel, 2001), pages 440-441. HISTORIC CONFRONTATION BETWEEN JEAN ROUCH AND OUSMANE ...