The struggle of the Diola people of the Casamance region to the French authorities during the Second World War. Shot in Diola dialect and French, an original script, EMITAI offers a respectful but unromanticized representation of an ancient tribal culture, while emphasizing the role of women in the struggle against colonialist oppression. In XALA (1975), Sembene again takes on the native bourgeoisie, this time in the person of a wealthy, in part Western Muslim businessman "hit Xala" (...
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