Rise of a Nation: An Exploration of Vieyra's Vision for Senegal through Une nation est née

• Published in: Black camera : the newsletter of the Black Film Center/Archives Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 338 - 354
• Main Author: Lomeli, Timothy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 01.04.2022
• Subjects: Actors; African history; Audiences; Colonialism; Cultural heritage; Motion picture directors & producers; Motion pictures; National identity; Novels; Postcolonialism; Vieyra, Paulin Soumanou; Senegal

Paulin Soumanou Vieyras vision for African cinema was born out of the lack of proper representation for Africans in Western cinema. Thus, his films explore narratives of Africans on the big screen, those whose roles, as Vieyra himself writes in Le cinéma au Sénégal (1983), had previously been relega...