Ousmane Sembene: Dialogues with Critics and Writers

This volume celebrates the work of Ousmane Sembène, the brilliant African filmmaker and writer. Since the 1950s, working in his native Senegal, Sembène has produced a series of films and novels that incisively depict the realities of contemporary African experience, particularly that of urban and industrial Africa. The book begins with critical essays on Sembène’s oeuvre by Frederick Ivor Case, Françoise Pfaff, Mbye Cham, and Claire Andrade-Warkins. There follows a series of presentations b...