Word: sembeneã
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...Ousmane Sembene??€™s 1977 film was banned in his home country on a wacky technicality, but the history only adds to the allure of Senegal’s most famous auteur’s most ambitious flick. Seemingly, the kidnapping of a beautiful princess is the centerpiece, but that is just the lens through which he address some of Senegal’s most pressing issues: Muslim expansion, Christianity and the slave trade. The title comes from the name for the common lower class, and the sweeping scope of this study envelops their desperate desire for the possibility...
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