The Black Docker

Name: The Black Docker
Author: Sembene Ousmane

by Sembene Ousmane

Docker's struggle for dignity amid colonial exploitation and racism

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Sembene Ousmane

Senegalese novelist and filmmaker often called the 'father of African cinema.' His fiction, written in French, championed the working classes and women of West Africa against colonial and post-colonial exploitation.

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