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Ousmane Sembène, born on the 1st, possibly the 8th of January, 1923, in Ziguinchor-Casamance, Senegal, French West Africa, is the writer and film director known for his historical and political themes. Sembène spent his early years as a fisherman on the Casamance coast. He studied at the School of Ceramics at Marsassoum and then moved…