Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007

Ousmane, Sembène, 1923-2007
Semben, Usman, 1923-2007
Sāmbīn, 1923-2007
Sāmbīn, ʻUthmān, 1923-2007
Sembene, 1923-2007

Ô pays, mon beau peuple, 1957.
African authors, 1973: p. 391 (Sembène, Ousmane, b. 1/8/23 Ziguinchor-Casamance, Senegal; novelist, short story writer, director, film-maker)
Hist. dict. of Senegal, 1981: p. 256 (Sembène, Ousmane (1923- ); writer and leading Senegalese film director)
LC data base, 8/14/87 (hdg.: Ousmane, Sembene; usage: Sembene Ousmane, Sembène Ousmane, Ousmane Sembene, Ousmane Sembène; forms without accents used predominantly on English-language translations)
Sāmbīn, 2000: p. 7 (ʻUthmān Sāmbīn)
Mandabi, 1999: credits (Usman Semben)
New York times WWW site, June 11, 2007 (Ousmane Sembène, the Senegalese filmmaker and writer who was a crucial figure in Africa's postcolonial cultural awakening, has died at his home in Dakar, Senegal, aged 84; b. Jan. 1, 1923, in the Casamance region of southern Senegal)
Independent online ed., June 13, 2007 (Ousmane Sembène; b. Jan. 1, 1923, Ziguinchor, Senegal; d. June 9, 2007, Dakar; subversive director known as the "father of African cinema")
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed September 13, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: Sembène, Ousmane; fiction writer, motion picture producer / director; born 1923 in Cassamance region, Senegal; received little formal education; enlisted in the French colonial army and fought in World War II (1942); participated in the Dakar-Niger railroad strike (1947); enrolled in Gorki Studio, Moscow (1961); returned to Senegal and worked as a film director; created an African cinematic language, the approach he developed became the model for FEPACI film directors; his final film, Moolaade (2004) won awards at Cannes; died 09 January 2007 in Dakar, Senegal)