Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène was born on 1 January 1923 in Ziguinchor. Expelled from school at thirteen, he served in the colonial army, then made his way to France, where he worked as a docker in Marseille and was self-taught; he published his first novels from 1956. He learned cinema at the Gorky studio in Moscow in the early sixties, then shot several of his films in Wolof, and left a dozen films and about ten books. He died in Dakar on 9 June 2007, aged eighty-four.

In the catalogue 2

• Short filmBorom SarretOusmane Sembène · 1963Cinema
• Feature filmBlack GirlLa Noire de…Ousmane Sembène · 1966Cinema