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Ousmane Sembène
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Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author (1923–2007)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 2007
- Works
- 53
Top works
- L'harmattan
- Ô pays, mon beau peupl!
- Le docker noir
- Voltaïque
- The money-order ; with, White genesis
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Film & TV
Directing · Ziguinchor, Casamance, Senegal
Ousmane Sembène (January 1, 1923 — June 9, 2007), often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa and he has often been called the "Father of African film."
Known for
- Marseille après la guerre2023
- Sembene! — Himself (archive footage)2015
- Tahar Chériaa: A l'Ombre du Baobab — Self2014
- O Sembene! — Self2013
- Sembène: The Making of African Cinema — Self1994
- Behind the Scenes: The Making of Ceddo — Himself1981
- Ceddo — A Ceddo / Ibrahima (uncredited)1978
- Mandabi — Public Writer at the Post Office (uncredited)1968
- Black Girl — The Teacher (uncredited)1966
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 56
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Evaluation of Convalescent Plasma for Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea
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- High Rate of Recurrent De Novo Mutations in Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies
· 2017 · cited 429x
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Quotes
- “Striking brutally through the cloud curtain, like the beam from some celestial projector, a single ray of light lashed at the Koulouba, the governor's residence, poised like a sugar castle on the heights that bore its name.”
- “The faces seemed to have lost all trace of personality. As if some giant eraser had rubbed out their individual traits they had taken on a common mask, the anonymous mask of a crowd.”
- “God forgive me, I had forgotten Maimouna.”
- “Today, I will bring back something to eat.”
- “I told you yesterday, Rama, that I couldn’t do anything more for you, or for any of the striker’s families.”
- “El Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was what one might call a synthesis of two cultures: business had drawn him into the European middle class after a feudal African education. Like his peers, he made skillful use of his dual background, for their fusion was not complete.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1923-01-01 ) 1 January 1923, Ziguinchor , Casamance , French West Africa , (now Senegal)
- Died
- 9 June 2007 (2007-06-09) (aged 84), Dakar , Senegal
- Occupation
- Film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, author
- Language
- Wolof , French
- Years active
- 1956–2003
- Notable works
- Borom Sarret (1963) Black Girl (1966) Mandabi (1968)
- Allegiance
- Free France
- Branch
- French Liberation Army Senegalese Tirailleurs
- Service years
- 1944-46
- Conflicts
- World War II Liberation of France
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Ousmane Sembène (1987) by Guenter Prust.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1923-01-01
- date of death
- 2007-06-09
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Article
Ousmane Sembène ( French: [usman sɑ̃bɛn]; 1 January 1923 or 8 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa and he has often been called the "father of African film".
He was often credited for his work in the French style as Sembène Ousmane, which he seemed to favor as a way to underscore the "colonial imposition" of this naming ritual and subvert it.