My walk with Senegalese director, Ousmane Sembène continues with his 1975 film Xala, an adaptation of Sembène’s 1973 novel of the same name. It’s the most modern of his films I have seen as yet, set some 15 years after Senegal’s independence. After a film like Emitai, where the French occupiers were the subject of Sembene’sContinue reading “FILM REVIEW; Ousmane Sembène’s XALA”
