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- Ousmane Sembène (French: [usman sɑ̃bɛn]; 1 January 1923 or 8 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa and he has often been called the "father of African film".
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Ousmane Sembène - Wikipedia. Ousmane Sembène (French: [usman sɑ̃bɛn]; 1 January 1923 or 8 January 1923 [1] – 9 June 2007), was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa and he has often been called the "father of African film". [2]
Ousmane Sembène was a Senegalese writer and film director known for his historical and political themes. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Sembène spent his early years as a fisherman on the Casamance coast. He studied at the School of Ceramics at Marsassoum and then.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 31, 2023 · Ousmane Sembène at 100: a guide to the life and work of the ‘father of African cinema’. Published: January 31, 2023 1:13am EST. The impact of filmmaker Ousmane Sembène’s work should not be...
- Imruh Bakari
Aug 3, 2023 · The fearless Senegalese writer and film-maker Ousmane Sembène had a talent for reckoning with the past while looking to the future of his homeland.
Nov 5, 2015 · The Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene (1923–2007), often called the father of African cinema, had a seismic career.
- Movie Critic
Jan 10, 2023 · 1 January 2023 marked the centenary of the birth of Ousmane Sembène, the Senegalese novelist and filmmaker hailed as the “father of African cinema”. Over the course of five decades Sembène ...
A dedicated Marxist-Leninist who believed art to be an essential part of revolutionary struggle, he determined that "cinema is the people's night school." At thirty-nine-years-old, Sembène left Senegal for the Soviet Union's Gorky Studio.
