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I grew up in a small village in Senegal.

With no TV, no newspapers no

radio.

All I had were the stories of my grandmother.

By the time I was 14, I dreamed of becoming

French.

French

like the characters in The French books. I read in high school.

When I was 17, I discovered the stories of

a Senegalese artist.

The characters in his stories were just like my grandmother

my friends and me.

Suddenly, I did not want to be French anymore.

I wanted to be Africa.

It's where the stories of Usman samman.

the father of African Cinema

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My name is sambago. I used

to walk this streets.

On the way to visit my friend usmansembe.

Symbian died for years ago

and have been grieving for him since that day.

It is my first time but to his house.

I remember.

One evening having dinner here with some

Ben.

He got up on the Kimbark.

With a set of keys and said here.

Samba now on you can come in and out of this

house as you please.

I was very moved.

but then when I really thought about it, I realized

some Ben was not just

standing an invitation to me.

He was asking me to be.

able of his legacy

Oh my God.

I can't believe this destruction. I can't

believe some Ben has been abandoned this way.

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samband in the Soviet Union in front of Karl Marx

statue

many years passed between the time I first read

some Ben's stories.

And the time I finally met the man.

but all of the time

semban remained my most important teacher

his legacy is rotting.

And not let this happen. I cannot

let his books and films before God.

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Semen was born in 1923 in

rural Senegal.

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But sometimes it worked for the white man.

Curious about the world. He left Africa and

traveled to France.

to Marseille

Marseille or Port City

always hungry for strong arms and backs.

Marseille

The city where San Ben lifted sex heavier than

him.

Mercy where semben had his political Awakening

where he joined the French Communist Party

Marseille

Western Ben was seduced by the power and beauty of Europe.

Commercial degree francaise

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they come more baluba volunteer.

to just visit

and one day

Symbian lifted

Coffee bag and broke his back.

His backbone was shattered.

Cement spent six months on his belly

in the hospital.

And some men took that opportunity.

to educate himself

to read

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began writing so he could give voice to

the voiceless.

It was at

that moment that some Ben wrote that piece of wood

which I discovered when I was 17 years old.

And then amazingly the subtitle

was Bunty Mommy yell.

in War of language

It was the first time I see a book.

with the subtitle in an African

language

Wasn't anything we had ever felt before?

We were mesmerized. I was being fed with

textbook French textbook that taught

me how to be French.

He is the first book by Usman Samuel senegales

was just teaching me how to

be myself.

And for the first time maybe since I entered school,

I was proud to be an Africa.

Did you say he's he was a dog walker?

Did you say his self-taught?

This guy is God.

That's how I so simple.

I was six years old in 1960 when

Africa became free.

my country Senegal liberated itself from

Friends

Nigeria from England

Congo from Belgium and nearly everywhere

else in Africa became free.

Our leaders imagined on you and unified Africa.

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in 1961 semen was invited to the Soviet Union

to study filmmaking at the borkies today.

One year later. He returned to Africa with

a used 16 millimeter camera.

It is offering to the movement.

Was his first film.

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It was crazy to make films in Africa.

before independence

the French authorities prohibited Africans from

making films of Their Own

My people were not able to pick up a film

camera and tell their stories.

Borom Sarat was the first ever sub-Saharan

film made by an African.

in Africa for Africans

We saw Africans that looked like our fathers

woman that look like her mothers.

Here somebody is going against 100

Years of stereotypes.

There was no film and Industry. No equipment. No

professional crew.

No Trend actors, no funds.

Somewhere made this film using left to over film stock

his European friends sent him.

His actors were people of the streets and his

friends and family served as

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When we saw black girl wish shocked.

By the story of this woman being lured

into French without knowing

she was falling into a trap.

Can have a new metal?

If you look at the way films depicted

Africans, nobody pays attention to

their Humanity.

Some men came to cinema and invented

a new language to represent

black people.

This begins in black girl of anniversary.

You see her from the way she sees

herself.

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film will stay new forever.

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at the first Pan African Arts Festival in the garden

in 1966.

It was an international success.

Even the French surrendered to the power of black girl inviting

some Ben to be the first African member

of the jury at Khan.

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some Ben said black people need a

black cinnamon. We need our own Heroes.

if

the Euphoria of Independence was very short-lived by

the time I was in college 12 years after Independence

Our Heroes had been hosted corrupted or

killed.

the dream of a new Africa

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first of a Trilogy about political corruption

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By the time anytime was released semben had

become one of Africa's most influential artists.

What was exciting at that time is that African-Americans and

Africans and people of

the third world were exchanging symbols symbols

of revolutionaries first, and then

was one of those symbols in his picture was

there with those of you know,

the cabrals with those of the Angela Davis

with those of you know, the great

artists and revolutionaries and

cultural activists.

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the house he built with his own hands became

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Color is probably the most important political

African film in African

country has become independent. So the film

opens with people drumming.

And then you have the politicians like homeboys the in

the middle of the crowd week the crowd and the politicians make

one.

And then some then cuts.

Suddenly you see the police telling the crowd to move out of

the way. So the push the crab out of the African Independence.

They bring white advisors.

Who can still today decembles of

the World Bank or IMF? But also the different

secret police.

So you see them suddenly they come in and the hijacked

the independence.

By the mid-70s semben had

become very conscious of his own power.

mature reminisce

in the second film of His Rebel Trilogy Symbian

openly mocked the president of

Senegal and the ruling class.

semben models the president in his film on Senegal's

president Leopold sengo

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The third

film in semen's trouble Trilogy was

his most provocative.

And no one wanted to fund it.

So he had to mortgage girl lechetto in order

to make it.

to make a film attacking Islam

Who was calling for a lot of trouble?

It was suicide.

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even why not?

as an African American activist of the 1960s

carry more daily was inspired by Saint Ben's

and African message.

He followed him to DACA.

the fell in love

they married and she became one of

his most important collaborators.

and his Muse

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rushed the guard in trouble by riding the Satanic Verses

known as I said, somebody know they're

going to come and get you because you are literally attacking.

Islam

President xengo was outraged at Shadow

and Bandit.

Semben could not show the film to Africans.

creditors threatened to seize the lechetto

it would be 10 years before the rebel made another

film.

We have with us one of the world's finest filmmakers.

And also a novelist Usman some Ben

who's a film cheddo. We we recently premiered

Sheila. I am the mouth of millions of men. I

am the ears of millions of people the eyes of millions of

people I speak for them. But when the government in the

case of synagogue, it takes it on itself in

spite of the control commissions decision to

ban a film then it is a political power,

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In the 10 years while some men struggled I finished

my degree moved to America and became

a skull.

I watch his movies again and again and told

them to my students.

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We used to invite artists writers and

in one of our meetings I suggested we invite

someone.

I felt like his work was changing the world.

I thought by bringing here in some small

way. I was also contributing

in changing the world. Maybe it

was very very naive.

We send him a facts and of course a week later.

He respond. I'm not coming.

Of other things to do that are more important to

Africa than to come waste my time with American academics.

It has been 10 years since JoJo was banned.

But it's done singer has retired and moved to France.

A new government is in place and semban is

finally ready to make his next film.

It will be his most controversial one yet.

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the film told the true story of African soldiers

who after fighting for the French army in Europe

during World War 2.

Returned home only to be held in relocation comes

by the French.

They were denied their pay they joined together

and resisted the French demanding the

rights.

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Condo, Charlie premiered at the Venice

Film Festival.

winning five Awards

But in France, the film was not seen.

the French government banned it

But can't be charoi.

Will also be remembered by whole generation

of young Senegalese filmmakers.

at the film that Saint Ben had Tak

en Sam Ben had been made the director of a fund

to support young Senegalese filmmakers.

among those promised money

was bubakarborus job

the young novelist who some Ben had

encouraged yes before.

Boris's script was also about the massacre at

country charoi, and he was promised

funds to make the film.

But sent to the fund intended

for Boris and other young filmmakers and made

his own movie on the very same subject.

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Some men may have slept with the devil to make his films.

But I still believed in him.

I believed his work empowered our people.

I convinced my

colleagues to buy a plane ticket.

And to send me to Senegal to go meet somewhere.

I just couldn't believe I would one day be in

a position to meet Usman.

I lend it sentence office as

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So yes, what what can I do for you? It was very very

abrupt.

very rude

I was very intimidated as that hammering. Oh,

well, I had just come to

send you to bring you this invitation, but didn't you

send me a facts?

I said yes, did I refuse?

That idea. So why are you coming here

wasting my time? I said, well I came to try to

convince you here. I am as a young Professor in

the United States. I'm inviting you to help me make Africa known

and you refuse

it was such a disappointment that first

encounter with somebody.

My God had completely fallen from

the pedestal.

Is this really the person whose work

I read.

Day after day. I was at his door. He came we talked

and I think he was testing me

actually.

later husband the Great

it was a childhood dream come true.

I was going to get to know the man whose work

changed my life.

For months I prepared for his arrival on

Sunday, March 21st.

Saturday morning

six am my phone rings and Ben I am

here at the airport. Where are you?

I said what airport he said I might Kennedy if in half

an hour, I don't see you. I'm going back to Seneca.

I was terrified.

I didn't even wash my face. I jumped on

the first Gene head.

Start driving from South Hadley to JFK,

which is about three hours.

I have sunburn was.

Furious

he would not even shake my hand. He just pointed at

his suitcase take it and let's go.

Before I check before I change my mind. I

mean, I was really really terrified.

I don't know what

so yeah, I take him to his door.

He shook hands with me then he turned.

Okay, I am here now. Let's forget about what happened. You tell

me what you expect from me and I

will deliver.

So that's how our tours began.

For the next 17 years, I was sentenced guide.

Setting up events with him around the world.

We brought his films to universities and the film

festivals.

To his friends and people who had never

seen them before.

And I always brought my video camera.

I don't need to translate the question here.

I'm gonna be a resistance active contrary to

what you say. I think in the field there is a very active

resistance. Okay, electron of facil defend the

film. I mean the program and it's really so

easy to make a movie in which people are shooting in

every corner so satisfilism and I

think maybe it's just for Destruction police and

don't get me wrong. I

have a lot of admiration for the filmmakers just say

if you feel my reflection and what

I want to do is not just for entertainment, but

I'm just

like to say few words about simbend Usman.

He's a man. He's

a filmmaker that is both affectionately and

respectfully known as the father of

African Cinema.

He's been the architect of many of the structures that

have allowed African Cinema to develop on the

continent and has given it a platform internationally.

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let's welcome.

I think when he came here, he

just realized he was valid more outside

of Senegal than at home.

He had lost some self-confidence.

Some men gave me a second. Look.

And he's basically saw this young

and to see a stick African scholar

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Semen was received like a

superstar.

I definitely was not his only family.

Because we believe here the

great

not me. No you I was like the bush telephone

in New York. I would just call everyone. I knew and

said you have to go see this film there was like a badge of

honor to say we all also have a cinema.

I mean every day was sold out I kept saying to

him. You see what we could do for you here in New York. You see

he says no, you see what I came to do for you. It's

funny because we had this long

running joke say oh my god. He has his group here.

Coming to you have this

group of women who just appeared

and you're thinking went. Oh my goodness. Where did they

come from?

Something was my life. I've been told that you don't necessarily like

being referred to as the father of African film, but inevitably

people do what I'm interested in is what do

you do to take your films around your country just completely

understand and

I do what the facility in.

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right? Yes, really groups getting videos

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I have a van. I have a generator and

I have my videos. So I just take them under what you understand. I

really don't have to wait until

you.

It had been 10 years since semben finished kandicharoy.

Friends had finally lifted the band.

Cement invited me to Paris for the

premiere of the film.

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was nearly blind.

And he didn't know where to put his foot.

Had to help him with the stairs.

And I also realized that this man was beginning to

treat me like a son had his own children who

he had at times neglected.

His eldest Allen agreed to talk to me about his

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at every step he was on the brink of falling because

he did not know where to put his foot.

Although he was surrounded by five younger

people. He outworked them.

The 11th week. He was just exhausted. So he

collapsed.

He would have an IV on his arm all night six o'clock

in the morning. He puts on his shoes goes to

walk.

I told him I think you should take a break. He said

after I die. I'll have plenty of time to rest. Let's go

to work.

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in acting the excision of a little girl.

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just being asked to replay she thought

she was being cut.

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her. I mean two minutes before tears if

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