The Senegalese writer and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene has died last weekend, aged 84. For an obituary, click here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/world/africa/11sembene.html?ex=1182225600&e...

what have I got to do with that ? Not all that much, but my mother translated one of his books, Guelwaar: http://www.sigridgross.com/