A Call To Action: The Films of Ousmane Sembene [60, 1 ed.] 0313302790, 0275958019, 9780313302794

Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Boro

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A Call To Action: The Films of Ousmane Sembene [60, 1 ed.]
 0313302790, 0275958019, 9780313302794

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A CALL TO ACTION The Films of Ousmane Sembene use n fter a series of visits tc

Edited by

mrce of the disease

Sheila Petty

audulently appropriated. T he film denounces the excess' id misplaced priorities of the

new African

elites,

by equatic

neocolonial exploitation and ideological bankruptc

leir

ith sexual frica’s

impotence, presented here

metaphor

ft

socio-economic impotence. This critique manifej

self by the miserable

condition of the multitude of beggar

he mordacity with which lustrated exemplifies

:chnique, j^xsites.

and

is

this

socio-economic inertia

Sembene’s uncompromising

embodied

narrati

in the ironic juxtaposition

Thus, from the very beginning, the film draws

Unction between

the two

main

I, representing the exploiters

;overnment treasury,

dancing

l

as a

in celebrati

1

(

tf

classes in Africa: the rulin

who share money stolen froi

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