Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène (1923-2007) was a Senegalese writer and film-maker. He is one of the best known African writers. The Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa and he has often been called the "father of African film".

Wisdom & Quotes

• You have already beaten him - you struck him where every human worthy of the name is most vulnerable. You have shamed him before his friends and before the world, and in doing that you have hurt him far more than you could by any bodily punishment.

- God's Bit of Wood

• It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.

Tawfiq Sayigh