Senegal: In Memory of Ousmane Sembene

Togolese writer Kangi Alem has a short tribute ^[1] [Fr] to famed Senegalese filmmaker and novelist Ousmane Sembene ^[2] who passed away this weekend in Dakar. “I used to read the greats of African literature in my literature textbook in the 1980s, and I imagined all these authors were dead. What it shock it was to see the man with the pipe [Sembene Ousmane] in a classroom in Lytoko. It's all come full circle. Life later made me a writer, and I think of Sembene each time that I come across students who tell me, “we didn't know that we could meet you Mr. Alem.” May the smoke of his pipe precede him to the paradise of believers!”