Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer, often called the father of African film, and the Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa. He was best known as a novelist for God's Bits of Wood, which follows the 1947 Dakar-Niger railway strike through the eyes of ordinary workers and their families. His other books include The Money-order and Tribal Scars, and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction.