Por África e para África : uma análise do filme Borom Sarret (1963), de Ousmane Sembène

Abstract

The production of knowledge about the African continent has historically been an external elaboration, aimed at meeting needs that normally do not come from Africa and do not consider their own perspectives. This research assumes that African filmic works constitute a universe of documents that enable the construction of a counter-history of the African continent. Thus, the objective of this study is to think about Sembenian cinematography from the prism of the anti-colonial struggle, without, however, reducing its trajectory only to colonial contact. In this way, from the analysis of the film Borom Sarret (1963), I seek to understand the challenges faced by this filmography, considering Sembène and his work as a result of the relationships established on the African continent. In other words, to think this filmmaker is to think from Africa