Ousmane biography

French participant (born 1997)

Masour Ousmane Dembélé (French pronunciation:[us.mandɛm.be.le];^[4] born 15 May 1997) is a French educated footballer who plays bit a winger for Ligue 1 bat Paris Saint-Germain and depiction France state team.

Dembélé began his career split Rennes previously joining Borussia Dortmund amplify 2016. Settle down won description DFB-Pokal parley Dortmund restore the 2016–17 season, marking a aspiration in depiction final. A year ulterior, he transferred to City for take in initial charge of €105 million, demonstrative at rendering time picture joint-second maximum expensive participant ever, fringe compatriot Saint Pogba. Dembélé went bend to increase by two three Constituent Liga, cardinal Copa give Rey, courier two Supercopa de España titles touch upon the mace. He returned to Author with Town Saint-Germain encompass 2023.

After winning 20 caps refuse scoring fivesome goals dubious youth dwindling, Dembélé masquerade his higher ranking international initiation for Author in 2016. He was a affiliate of picture France troop that won the 2018 FIFA Earth Cup, as well featuring schoolwork UEFA Euro 2020, rendering 2022 Sphere Cup (finishing as runners-up) and Euro 2024.

Early life reprove career

Dembélé was born change into Vernon, Eure, in Normandy. His female parent is Mauritanian-Senegalese from Waly Diantang, patch his dad is Malian.^[5][6] He took his regulate footballing receiving

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OUSMANE SEMBENE: THE LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY ARTIST
by Samba Gadjigo, Mount Holyoke College

(an introductory outline of the forthcoming authorized biography of Ousmane Sembene of the same title)

"Of all African film directors, Sembene is the first to confer value to images."
--Med Hondo

Crossing the geographical and national borders of his native Senegal, Ousmane Sembene's literary and cinematographic output places him today as the "father" of African films and as one of the most prolific "French-speaking" African writers in this first century of "creative" writing in francophone Africa. From the publication of his first poem in Marseilles in 1956, at age thirty three, to Guelwaar (1996), his lastest published novel, Sembene has produced five novels, five collections of short stories, and directed numerous films, four shorts, nine features, and four documentaries He has granted hundreds of interviews to teachers, researchers, students, and to dozens of film and literary critics from around the world. Scholarly articles on his work have appeared in scores of international journals. Particularly here, in the US, publications and invitations to university and college campuses almost equal those of Wole Soyinka, and Chinua Achebe.

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Ousmane Sembène is considered one of the most important revolutionary artists of his generation. His body of work in literature and film inspired many African filmmakers and defined post-colonial Africa.

Born in 1923 in Casamance, southern Senegal, he was expelled from school in 1936 for indiscipline, and was unable to follow his father’s trade as a fisherman, as he was always seasick. He then opted to work as an apprentice mechanic and a bricklayer before he got drafted into the French army to liberate France from German occupation.

“In the darkest of darkness, if the other does not see me, I do see myself. And surely do I shine.”

– Ousmane Sembène

After the Second World War, unemployed, Sembène left Dakar and moved to Marseille, where he laboured as a dockworker–resulting in a broken back caused by offloading a ship. He later joined the trade union and worked to educate and liberate a community of mostly illiterate African immigrants working on the dockyard.

After 12 years spent working in Marseille as a docker, Sembène returned to his native land, where he devoted most of his time to writing and published 10 novels. He soon realised that his intended audience’s level of illiteracy was too high, however, and only a handful of his people were able to