Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène

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Dɔɔ bee pɔge bee dɔgebo	dɔɔ
Dɔgebo paaloŋ	Senegal
Yo-ennaa bee yoporaa	Ousmane
Family name	Sembène
Dɔgebo bebiri	1 Gyɛnoɔre 1923
Dɔgebo zie	Ziguinchor
Kūū bebiri	9 Gyoone 2007
Place of death	Dakar
Place of burial	Yoff
Kɔkɔyelii, sɛge ne bee goligoluu	French, wolof
Zanne la	Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
Work location	Senegal
Politikal paati mɛmba	Parti communiste français
Participant in	Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou
Participated in conflict	World War II
Military branch	Senegalese Tirailleurs
Has works in the collection	Museum of Modern Art
Nominated for	European Film Award for Best Non-European Film
Yitaa gbuli	Category:Films directed by Ousmane Sembène
Copyright status as a creator	works protected by copyrights

Ousmane Sembène (1 January 1923 bee 8 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), da la a Senegalese sinii daraata, maala ane sɛgerɛ. A Los Angeles Times da de o la k'o da e a sɛgesɛgerɛ kpoŋ kaŋa ko a Africa ka gbɛɛ gyamaa ka ba maŋ boɔle o ka "wederɛ ko African sinii".

O da maŋ nyɛɛ sommo gyamaa kyaare a o French gɔɔloŋ a Sembène Ousmane, ka o da nyɛ a ka a da e bone naŋ da vɛŋ k'o da ba taa teɛroŋ soŋ kyaare a "colonial imposition" kyaare a yuori poruu tige.

Naŋ da yi Serer yiriŋ yi a o ma zuiŋ naŋ be a dɔgroŋ gbɛre naŋ e Matar Sène, Ousmane Sembène da maŋ maale be la a Serer saakonnoo tigiri. O da nyɛɛ yele mine kyaare a Tuur tigiri.

Kuuŋ

Ousmane Sembène kuu bebiri da la 9 June 2007, o naŋ da e yuomo 84. O da gaŋɛɛ baaloŋ December 2006, a da kpi a o yiriŋ Dakar, Senegal, be k'o danyɛ uumu neŋ shroud adorned naŋ taa Quranic verses. Sembène da nyɛ la biiri bayi kultaa parɛɛ ayi poɔ.

Seipati Bulane Hopa, Secretary General ko Pan African Federation ko Filmmakers (FEPACI), da mannɛɛ Sembène k'o da e "a luminary that lit the torch for ordinary people to walk the path of light...a voice that spoke without hesitation, a man with an impeccable talent who unwaveringly held on to his artistic principles and did that with great integrity and dignity."

South Africa's Pallo Jordan, Minister ko Arts ane saakonnoo, da la gaa la nimitɔɔre e eulogizing Sembène na e "a well rounded intellectual and an exceptionally cultured humanist...an informed social critic [who] provided the world with an alternative knowledge of Africa."

Toma

Gama

• Sembène, Ousmane (1956). Le Docker noir. Paris: Debresse. Also a new edition by publisher Présence Africaine of 2002.
  • Sembène, Ousmane (1987). Black Docker. African writers. London: Heinemann. ISBN 9780435908966. OCLC 16084389.
  • Sembène, Ousmane (1989). Black Docker. African writers. Oxford: Heinemann. ISBN 9780435908973. OCLC 476822988.
• Sembène, Ousmane (1957). O Pays, mon beau peuple!. Amiot Dumont, 1957. OCLC 1009422560.
• Sembène, Ousmane (1988). Les bouts de bois de Dieu : Banty mam yall. [Paris]: Le Livre Contemporain. OCLC 62109468. A later edition of the original of 1960.
  • Sembène, Ousmane (1995). God's Bits of Wood. Translated by Price, Francis. London: Heinemann. OCLC 562242510.
• Sembène, Ousmane (1962). Voltaïque. Paris: Présence Africaine. OCLC 312515053. Short stories.
  • Sembène, Ousmane (1974). Tribal Scars and other stories. Washington: INSCAPE. ISBN 9780879530150. OCLC 763705.
• Sembène, Ousmane (1964). L'Harmattan. Paris: Présence Africaine. OCLC 460661419. Reprint 1973.
• Sembène, Ousmane (1965). Vehi-Ciosane ou Blanche-Genèse, suivi du Mandat. Paris: Présence Africaine (Ligugé, impr. Aubin). OCLC 460661424.
  • Sembène, Ousmane (1987). The Money-Order with White Genesis. Translated by Wake, Clive. London: Heinemann. ISBN 9780435900922. OCLC 572500.
• Sembène, Ousmane (1973). Xala. Paris: Présence africaine.
  • Sembène, Ousmane (1976). Xala. OCLC 470084596.
  • Sembène, Ousmane (1980). Xala. London: Heinemann. ISBN 9780435901752. OCLC 974104373.
• Sembène, Ousmane (1981). Le dernier de l'Empire. Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 9782858021697. OCLC 405576233.
  • Sembène, Ousmane (1983). The Last of the Empire: a Senegalese novel. Translated by Adams, Adrian. London: Heinemann. ISBN 9780435902506. OCLC 10030343. "A Key to Senegalese Politics" – Werner Glinga.
• Sembène, Ousmane (1987). Niiwam : nouvelles. Paris: Présence africaine. ISBN 9782708704862. OCLC 631337297.
  • Sembène, Ousmane (1991). Niiwam and Taaw [two novellas]. Cape Town: D. Philip. ISBN 9780864861221. OCLC 24360778. Also Oxford and Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1992.

Filmography

Sembène's sinii la:

Year	Film	Genre	Role	Duration (min)
1963	Borom Sarret	Drama short Portrait of a poor Senegalese man. First film made by a black African.	Director and writer	20 m
1964	Niaye	Drama short The scandal of a pregnant young girl	Director and writer	35 m
1966	Black Girl (original title: La noire de...)	Drama feature A Senegalese girl becomes a servant in France	Director and writer	65 m
1968	Mandabi	Drama feature A Senegalese man has to cope with a money order from Paris	Director and writer	92 m
1970	Tauw	Drama short A young man makes a home for his pregnant girlfriend	Director and writer	24 m
1971	Emitaï	Drama feature Jola people protest World War II French conscription	Director and writer	103 m
1975	Xala	Comedy feature A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence	Director and writer	123 m
1977	Ceddo	Drama feature In protest outsiders (Ceddo, non-muslims) kidnap a black princess	Director and co-writer with Carrie Sembene	120 m
1988	Camp de Thiaroye	Historical drama feature In the 1944 Thiaroye massacre French troops kill rebelling returned black soldiers	Co-director and co-writer with Thierno Faty Sow	147 m
1992	Guelwaar	Drama feature Religious and political satire on an erroneous burial	Director and writer	115 m
2000	Faat Kiné	Drama feature An unwed mother succeeds professionally	Director and writer	120 m
2004	Moolaadé	Drama feature Women protest female genital mutilation	Director and writer	124 m

Nimitɔɔre kannoo

• Adeniyi, Idowu Emmanuel (2019). "Male Other, Female Self and Post-feminist Consciousness in Sembène Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood and Flora Nwapa's Efuru". Ibadan Journal of English Studies. 7: 57–72.
• Busch, Annett; Annas, Max (2008). Ousmane Sembène interviews. [Jackson]: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781934110850. OCLC 778204000.
  • "Ousmane Sembène: Interviews. Edited by Annett Busch and Max Annas". upress.state.ms.us. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Archived from the original on 2009-09-18. Retrieved 7 October 2023. Culture is political, but it's another type of politics. In art, you are political, but you say, 'We are' and not 'I am.'
• Gadjigo, Samba; Faulkingham, Ralph H.; Cassirer, Thomas; Sander, Reinhard, eds. (1993). Ousmane Sembène : dialogues with critics and writers. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9780870238895. OCLC 28339413.
• Gadjigo, Samba (2010). Ousmane Sembène : the making of a militant artist. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253354136. OCLC 313659212.
• Mumin, Nijla (October 4, 2013). "Caméras d'Afrique: Elvis Mitchell On West African Cinema and The Need for Diverse Film Criticism (Interview)". IndieWire. Penske Business Media, LLC. Archived from the original on 2018-10-29. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
• Murphy, David (2001). Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction – Sembene'. Oxford: Africa World Press Inc. ISBN 9780852555552. OCLC 254943835.
• Niang, Sada; Gadjigo (Fall 1995). "Interview with Ousmane Sembene". Research in African Literatures. 26 (3): 174–178.
• Niang, Sada (1996). Littérature et cinéma en afrique francophone: Ousmane Sembène et Assia Djebar. Paris: L’Harmattan. ISBN 9782738448750. OCLC 917569861.
• Pfaff, Françoise (1984). The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene: A Pioneer of African Film. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313244001. OCLC 10605185.
• Rubaba, Protas Pius (2009). "The influence of feminist communication in creating social transformation: an analysis of the films Moolaade (Ousmane Sembene) and Water (Deepa Mehta)" (PDF). vital.seals.ac.za. South East Academic Libraries System (SEALS). p. 132. Master thesis in Applied Media Studies, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
• Vieyra, Paulin Soumanou (1972). Ousmane Sembène cineaste: première période, 1962–1971. Paris: Présence Africaine. OCLC 896779795.

Ziiri mine liŋkiri

Sinii sere

• Ceddo (1977), with English and French Subtitles (**enable Closed Caption for English subtitles**) on YouTube. Video duration 1h:51m:41s. Uploader XMusicMusicX 2013.
• FILM GUELEWAR Ousmane Sembene 1992 (en Français) on YouTube. Video duration 1h:29m:38s. Uploader Roomnart 2022.

A zaa

• "Authors & Artists. Sembene, Ousmane". scholarblogs.emory.edu. Postcolonial Studies, Emory University. 19 August 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2023. As far as I am concerned, I no longer support notions of purity. Purity has become a thing of the past. . .
• Ousmane Sembène at IMDb
• Gadjigo, Samba. "Ousmane Sembene: the life of a revolutionary artist". newsreel.org. California Newsreel, San Francisco. Retrieved 7 October 2023. Crossing the geographical and national borders of his native Senegal, Ousmane Sembene's literary and cinematographic output places him today as the "father" of African films and as one of the most prolific "French-speaking" African writers in this first century of "creative" writing in francophone Africa.
• "Interview with Ousmane Sembène — father of African film". socialistworker.co.uk. Socialist Worker. 11 June 2005. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
• Scott, A.O. (2007-06-11). "An Appraisal: A Filmmaker Who Found Africa's Voice". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
• Scott, A.O. (2007-06-12). "Ousmane Sembène, 84, Dies; Led Cinema's Advance in Africa". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
• "Ousmane Sembène. Réalisateur/trice, Ecrivain/ne, Acteur/trice, Producteur/trice, Scénariste, Personne concernée. Sénégal". africultures.com (in French). Africultures. Les mondes en relation. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
• Busch, Annett; Annas, Max. "Ousmane Sembene Interviews". missingimage.com. Archived from the original on 2008-08-06. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
• "Ousmane Sembene". wnyc.org. New York Public Radio, WNYC. October 12, 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2023. Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene on his distinguished and prolific career, as well as his latest film: Moolaadé. Duration 31 min 20 sec. Audio file of the interview on the Leonard Lopate show.
• Amekudji, Anoumou (23 October 2009). "Selected lines of the book "Ousmane Sembène Interviews"". blog.cineafrique.org/. Archived from the original on 2010-11-21. Retrieved 7 October 2023. I interviewed Sembène Ousmane on July 25, 2006. We were supposed to meet again to continue the discussion and talk about other elements of his Cinema but he passed away at the beginning of June 2007.
• "Ousmane Sembène. The Making of a Militant Artist. Samba Gadjigo. Translated by Moustapha Diop. Foreword by Danny Glover". iupress.indiana.edu. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-05-06. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
• "Sembène: The Making of African Cinema (1994)". maumaus.org. Lisbon, Portugal: Associação Maumaus - Centro de Contaminação Visual. Retrieved 7 October 2023. In this rich documentary, legendary Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène reminisces about his career and discusses the craft of his films and novels. Review of the film by Manthia Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

A French kɔkɔreŋ

• Amekudji, Anoumou. "Rencontre avec Sembène Ousmane, écrivain-cinéaste sénégalais". blog.cineafrique.org (in French). Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 7 October 2023. Article paru dans l'hebdomadaire sénégalais, Weekend, l'hebdo du Quotidien, Semaine du 2 au 8 aout 2007. One of the last interviews of Sembene Ousmane.
• Barlet, Olivier (27 May 2005). "La leçon de cinéma d'Ousmane Sembène au festival de Cannes 2005" (in French). Archived from the original on 2006-11-23. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
• Barlet, Olivier (11 June 2007). "Sembène, le mécréant". africultures.com (in French). africultures. Les mondes en relation. Archived from the original on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
• Barlet, Olivier (15 August 2007). "Entretien avec Ousmane Sembène". africultures.com (in French). africultures. Les mondes en relation. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 7 October 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• "LE PÈRE DU CINÉMA AFRICAIN. Ousmane Sembène, le Dakarois en perpétuelle révolte". courrierinternational.com (in French). Courier International. 15 December 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2023. Ultimate source: International Herald Tribune.
• "Cinéma > Ousmane SEMBENE". senegalaisement.com (in French). Archived from the original on 2007-09-15. Retrieved 7 October 2023.