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A CALL TO ACTION The Films of Ousmane Sembene use n fter a series of visits tc
Edited by
mrce of the disease
Sheila Petty
audulently appropriated. T he film denounces the excess' id misplaced priorities of the
new African
elites,
by equatic
neocolonial exploitation and ideological bankruptc
leir
ith sexual frica’s
impotence, presented here
metaphor
ft
socio-economic impotence. This critique manifej
self by the miserable
condition of the multitude of beggar
he mordacity with which lustrated exemplifies
:chnique, j^xsites.
and
is
this
socio-economic inertia
Sembene’s uncompromising
embodied
narrati
in the ironic juxtaposition
Thus, from the very beginning, the film draws
Unction between
the two
main
I, representing the exploiters
;overnment treasury,
dancing
l
as a
in celebrati
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tf
classes in Africa: the rulin
who share money stolen froi
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