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Xala

1975 · Directed by Ousmane Sembène · Senegal

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Senegal · 1975

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Black Panther 2018 · Ryan Coogler Atlas note Hulu

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Ryan Coogler has said he spent months studying the work of Ousmane Sembène, the Senegalese filmmaker who spent his career insisting African stories deserved their own visual language rather than a borrowed European one, before designing Wakanda's aesthetic. Sembène made his first film in 1963. He called himself the father of African cinema. Black Girl and Touki Bouki, Djibril Diop Mambéty's visionary 1973 film, are the real Wakanda.

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