Filmmaker Spotlight: Ousmane Sembène (January 1, 1923 - June 9, 2007)
Born the son of a fisherman, Senegalese film director, writer and producer Ousmane Sembène started off writing novels earlier in his career. His novels dealt with issues of racism and classism. Sembène’s third and most famous novel Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu (God’s Bits of Wood, 1960) is considered by most critics a masterpiece. The novel fictionalizes the real-life story of a railroad strike on the Dakar-Niger line and lasted from 1947 to 1948. » Read more…
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February 21, 2009
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