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 […]