It’s a pity that most movie lovers know so little, if anything, about African cinema, for the continent’s filmmakers have much to say. The one film some viewers may recognize is “Black Girl” (1966), a ...

The Senegalese filmmaker, writer and social activist Ousmane Sembene, regarded as one of the pioneers of African cinema, died June 10 in Dakar. He was 84. Born into a humble fisherman’s family in the ...

Watch these selections that highlight the range and evolution of Black film. By Robert Daniels At Film Forum, a retrospective of the Senegalese director’s work shows the care he took in telling female ...

A fierce work of quasi-neorealist melodrama that melds pop cinema instincts and political indignation, Lino Brocka’s 1980 feature endures as a lively, searing parable on the plight of Filipino women ...

I have made seventeen films in Africa, probably more than any other director. It gets more difficult. If my purpose was just to satisfy the taste of the Euro-American public I would have been able to ...

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Ousmane Sembène was born in 1923 in Ziguinchor, Senegal. He joined the Free French forces in 1942, then worked in France. His novels include Le Docker Noir (1956) and Les bouts de bois de dieu (1960).

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