Black Girl

Ousmane Sembène · 1966 CE · Film · West African · Contemporary

Diouana takes a job in Dakar minding the children of a French couple, and follows them to an apartment on the Riviera expecting a life there. Instead she is cook, cleaner and nurse, kept indoors, spoken to as a possession, with a mask she once gave them hanging on the wall. Sub-Saharan Africa's first feature.

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