It’s a pity that most movie lovers know so little, if anything, about African cinema, for the continent’s filmmakers have much to say. The one film some viewers may recognize is “Black Girl” (1966), a ...

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 published ...

Bearing talent equal to the totemic filmmakers of his time hasn’t, all these decades hence, helped Ousmane Sembène achieve their cultural, academic, cinephilic stature. The perpetual marginalization ...

The man commonly regarded as the "father of African cinema" – Ousmane Sembène – died just a few years ago in 2007. He was 84 and left behind a total of 10 feature-length films, a number that seems all ...

I imagine it’s a thrill for any filmmaker to share a documentary with an audience. Since the premiere of our film “Sembene!” three years ago, I’ve had the luck to be able to do that many times. But ...

Ousmane Sembène, the Senegalese filmmaker who died last spring at age 84, was African cinema’s founding father. More than that, Sembène was a political organizer, a novelist, a self-taught ...

Dr. Ernest Cole of the Hope College English faculty hopes that his latest book, about Senegalese writer and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, builds greater awareness not only of the man widely considered ...

The Senegalese filmmaker, writer and social activist Ousmane Sembene, regarded as one of the pioneers of African cinema, died June 10 in Dakar. He was 84. Born into a humble fisherman’s family in the ...

Watch these selections that highlight the range and evolution of Black film. By Robert Daniels At Film Forum, a retrospective of the Senegalese director’s work shows the care he took in telling female ...