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Sada Niang. Djibril Diop Mambety: un cinéaste à contre-courant. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 2002. 239 pp. Bibliography/Filmography. Interviews. Euros 19,80. Paper.
On July 23, 1998, African cinema lost one of its most gifted filmmakers when Djibril Diop Mambety died. This important volume considers Mambety's legacy to African cinema and explores his contribution to aesthetics as a filmmaker who resisted easy categorization and consistently pushed the creative boundaries of African cinema. Sada Niang successfully undertakes the complex and compelling challenge of situating Mambety as a film artist and individual through a deft analysis of his films by contextualizing them within their cultural and sociopolitical frameworks.
The volume is organized into six chapters, a conclusion, and a collection of short interviews that cover the broad span of Mambety's work. Chapter 1 provides an excellent overview of Senegalese and especially Dakar culture, politics, and artistic expression during the period in which Mambety was born...