Ousmane Sembène, Ceddo, 1977. “Were you closer to your father or your mother?” So asks Manthia Diawara early in the 1994 documentary, Sembène: The Making of African Cinema. Ousmane Sembène’s reply, unsurprisingly, is that his relationship with women — in particular, his grandmothers — shaped his development most profoundly; “I’d watch her work,” he says […]
Eddy Troy
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