Samba Gadjigo
About
Samba Gadjigo wrote the biography Ousmane Sembene: Une Conscience Africane (Homnispheres, Paris, 2007), which covers Sembene's life from his birth in 1923 to the writing of his first book in 1956.
Sembene!
Sembene! celebrates a revolutionary artist who recognized that cultural survival depends on the reclamation of story. His life is recounted by a fictional, animated narrator - a wise old man - to a courtyard of youth, revealing the mechanics of the modern media inspiring the revival of culturally rich storytelling.