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• PoetryPaths to Paradiseمسالك الجنانCheikh Ahmadou Bamba · 1886A path to God set in verse: the great Sufi treatise of the founder of Mouridism.Literature
• NarrativeLes Trois Volontés de MalicAmadou Mapaté Diagne · 1920not translated into EnglishIn a Senegalese village where a French school has just opened, a child demands education, then a trade that his birth forbids him.Literature
• NarrativeStrength and GoodnessForce-BontéBakary Diallo · 1926A Fulani herdsman turned infantryman tells of his enlistment, Morocco, the trenches and the hospital, and the attachment he keeps to the country that cared for him.Literature
• PoetryXarnu biSerigne Moussa Ka · 1929not translated into EnglishAn appeal to the departed saint in the years of scarcity: a classic of Mouride wolofal.Literature
• NovelKarimOusmane Socé · 1935not translated into EnglishBetween Saint-Louis and Dakar, a young clerk spends his pay and his credit on courtship, bound by a code of honour that the city no longer knows.Literature
• TaleTales of Amadou KoumbaLes Contes d'Amadou KoumbaBirago Diop · 1947The Wolof villages and the Sahelian bush, as a veterinarian on his rounds heard them told in the evening by the griots.Literature
• NovelMaïmounaAbdoulaye Sadji · 1953not translated into EnglishA teenage girl leaves a bush town for the capital, where her beauty makes her an object of desire, between an arranged marriage and a hidden love.Literature
• EssayNations nègres et cultureCheikh Anta Diop · 1954not translated into EnglishAn African scholar turns the question of origins around: he makes the valley of the ancient Nile a civilisation of the continent, and the continent the heir that must claim it.Literature
• PoetryÉthiopiquesLéopold Sédar Senghor · 1956not translated into EnglishSenegal still a colony, four years before independence, where a poet and deputy writes in French verses made to be spoken to African rhythms.Literature
• PoetryHammer BlowsCoups de pilonDavid Diop · 1956Poems of anger and hope, struck like pestle blows: the most militant voice of Négritude.Literature
• NovelAmbiguous AdventureL'Aventure ambiguëCheikh Hamidou Kane · 1961The country of the Diallobé, on the banks of the Senegal River, at the moment when the French school wins over the children of the families who hold to the faith.Literature
• DocumentaryGrand Magal à ToubaBlaise Senghor · 1962The annual pilgrimage of the Mourides to Touba, filmed two years after independence by one of the country's first filmmakers.Cinema
• Short filmBorom SarretOusmane Sembène · 1963Dakar in the aftermath of independence, where the colonial city has kept its boundaries and where the small trade no longer feeds the man who plies it.Cinema
• Short filmSarzanMomar Thiam · 1963A tirailleur who has returned to his village wants to impose there what he learned in uniform, and clashes with everything he had left behind.Cinema
• PoetryPoèmes africainsAnnette Mbaye d'Erneville · 1965not translated into EnglishShort poems on tradition, independence and what women hold up, by a voice that comes from the radio as much as from the page.Literature
• TheatreL'Exil d'AlbouriCheikh Aliou Ndao · 1967not translated into EnglishThe Jolof under French colonial pressure, where a king prefers exile to submission, seen through the theatre of independent Senegal.Literature
• NovelThe WoundLa PlaieMalick Fall · 1967A vagrant and his wound in the streets of Saint-Louis: a novel of marginality, between cruelty and comedy.Literature
• Feature filmDiankha-biMahama Johnson Traoré · 1968At the end of the sixties, three girls from the same Senegalese household take opposite paths between tradition and modernity.Cinema
• Feature filmTouki BoukiDjibril Diop Mambéty · 1973The Dakar of 1973, where leaving for France is at once an everyday dream and an undertaking that has to be financed.Cinema
• Feature filmLe Bracelet de bronzeCheikh Tidiane Aw · 1974A young peasant who has come up to Dakar at the beginning of the seventies slides into delinquency, between the city that rejects him and the village that no longer expects him.Cinema
• NarrativeA Dakar ChildhoodDe Tilène au Plateau, une enfance dakaroiseNafissatou Niang Diallo · 1975A Dakar childhood of the forties and fifties, told by the woman who lived it, between the working-class district where she was born and the streets of the colonial centre.Literature
• Short filmLes Princes noirs de Saint-Germain-des-PrésBen Diogaye Bèye · 1975In Paris, young unemployed Africans live off the fantasies they inspire, and take on the character the neighbourhood expects of them.Cinema
• Feature filmLetter from My VillageKaddu BeykatSafi Faye · 1975A village of farmers in Serer country, where the monoculture imposed on them decides marriages as much as harvests.Cinema
• NovelSo Long a LetterUne si longue lettreMariama Bâ · 1979The Dakar of the seventies, where the fate of widows and second wives is discussed in homes long before it is in law.Literature
• NovelThe Beggars' StrikeLa Grève des bàttuAminata Sow Fall · 1979Driven out of an African capital that the authorities want to make presentable to travellers, the beggars stop begging, in a country where almsgiving is a religious obligation.Literature
• PoetryFilles du soleilNdèye Coumba Mbengue Diakhaté · 1980not translated into EnglishTwenty-six poems in praise of the women of Africa, daughters of the sun and mothers of the world.Literature
• NovelLe Temps de TamangoBoubacar Boris Diop · 1981not translated into EnglishFrom the year 2063, a narrative sets out to establish what a revolt stifled by the government of the first years of independence really was.Literature
• Feature filmUnder House ArrestEn résidence surveilléePaulin Soumanou Vieyra · 1981A one-party regime wavers when a thesis on traditions and power meets with a success that no one had foreseen.Cinema
• Feature filmJomAbabacar Samb-Makharam · 1981A griot links the strike at a Dakar factory to older acts of resistance, around a Wolof word that expresses dignity held and the refusal to sell oneself.Cinema
• Short filmLe Certificat d'indigenceMoussa Yoro Bathily · 1981A destitute mother looks for the paper that would allow her to have her child treated, and discovers what the administration demands of those who own nothing.Cinema
• NovelThe Abandoned BaobabLe Baobab fouKen Bugul · 1982A young girl from rural Senegal, who left to study in Belgium, tells in the first person of the vertigo of the West and of the lack that had driven her there.Literature
• Short storiesLa Voie du salutAminata Maïga Ka · 1985not translated into EnglishA dead mother telling her daughter's story, a maid left to fend for herself: two stories on the fate of women in Senegal.Literature
• Feature filmCamp de ThiaroyeThierno Faty Sow and Ousmane Sembène · 1988December 1944, in a transit camp near Dakar: riflemen back from Europe await their pay and their demobilisation, and the army they served meets them with different accounts.Cinema
• Short filmBoxumaleen !! (L'an... fer)Amet Diallo · 1991Four children from the outskirts of Dakar cross the city to care for their leader, in a world where the police are the first threat.Cinema
• Feature filmToubab biMoussa Touré · 1991A technician from Dakar arrives in Paris for a training course and looks for a friend he lost touch with, between the amused gaze of the newcomer and the loneliness of the emigrant.Cinema
• Short filmAïda SoukaMansour Sora Wade and David Achkar · 1992A young woman from Dakar, too Westernised for her own liking, is to be taught by a renowned expert the artifices that the country's women use to keep a husband.Cinema
• NovelAawo biMame Younousse Dieng · 1992not translated into EnglishA griotte tells, at the hairdresser's, the life of a first wife: one of the very first novels in Wolof.Literature
• Feature filmTableau FerrailleMoussa Sène Absa · 1997A young graduate from a poor neighbourhood enters the government to change the lives of his own people, and finds himself with two wives, courtiers and a public contract on his hands.Cinema
• Short filmAinsi soit-ilJoseph Gaï Ramaka · 1997In the heart of a dark, enclosed place, a woman urges her partner to leave the dispensary where he is wearing himself out, surrounded by sick children.Cinema
• Short filmKinkeliba et biscuits de merAlhamdou Sy · 1998In Senegal, after the devaluation of 1994, everyone looks for a fetish and follows to the letter the prescriptions they are sold.Cinema
• Short filmEven the Wind...Même le ventLaurence Attali · 1999A taxi ride through Dakar, between a driver who talks and a passenger who does not answer, opens a series of three films about love.Cinema

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