The African King

Wrestling with the complex legacy of Ousmane Sembene
by Richard Porton   posted Sep 11, 2008

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KEYWORDS

Ousmane Sembene  |  Retrospective  |  African cinema

FURTHER RESEARCH

Ousmane Sembene site

FURTHER READING

A.O. Scott's obituary of Sembene

THE AUTHOR

Richard Porton is one of the editors of Cineaste in New York. He is the author of Film and the Anarchist Imagination (Verso) and the editor of two forthcoming anthologies, On Film Festivals (Wallflower Press) and Arena 1: Cinema and Anarchism (PM Press).

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