Undoubtedly one of Africa’s most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number of scholarly articles. The schemas of reading applied to Sembene's oeuvre (novels, short stories and films) have, in the main, focused either on his militant posture against colonialism, his disenchantment with African leadership, or his infatuation with documenting the past in an attempt to ...

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume Two of this landmark series on African cinema is devoted to the decolonizing mediation of the Pan African Film & Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the most important, inclusive, and consequential cinematic convocation of its kind in the world. Since its creatio...

It is 1947 and the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway have come out on strike. Sembène Ousmane, in this vivid and moving novel, evokes all of the colour, passion and tragedy of those decisive years in history.'Ever since they left Thiès, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up, and new verses were born at the hazard of chance or inspiration, one word leading to another and each finding, in its tur...

Suivant une approche postcoloniale, nous présentons, dans ce chapitre, les ambivalences qui marquent les résistances et les luttes pour l’émancipation de divers acteurs/entités socioéconomiques africain(e)s à la suite de la rencontre de ces sociétés avec les civilisations arabomusulmanes et occidentales. Subséquemment, nous tenterons de tirer quelques enseignements pour penser les organisations.

Chercheurs, écrivains, cinéastes, témoins, amis et proches rendent hommage à Sembène Ousmane (1923-2007), « Père du cinéma africain », romancier et intellectuel engagé, pour qui l’art fut un instrument de lucidité et de résistance.Ce volume collectif explore la force politique et esthétique de ses films, la puissance littéraire de ses romans et l’influence durable de son œuvre sur plusieurs générations. Des Bouts de bois de Dieu à Guelwaar, en passant par Le Docker noi...