Ousmane Sembène
1923 – 2007 · Senegal · Literature
Father of African cinema and novelist of colonial labour.
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Inherited from1
- Léopold Sédar Senghor
1906 – 2001 · Literature, Philosophy
Sembène's cinema and fiction argue with Négritude's cultural politics.
Passed the work to1
- Ahmadou Kourouma
1927 – 2003 · Literature
Writing French in Mandinka syntax continues Sembène's project of an African-language literature in colonial dress.
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