Ousmane Sembène
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Emerging from a Serer-Lebou family in Ziguinchor, he acquired Wolof, French and basic Arabic through madrasa lessons and a French school before relocating to Dakar at fifteen, where he took a series of manual jobs and later served in the Senegalese Tirailleurs during World War II. After the war he migrated to France, worked in factories and docks, and became active in the CGT trade-union movement,…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
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