Actually, even our virility depends on the gaze and the control of women. Without women, we cannot do anything. I think it's a good thing.
Ousmane SembeneThe development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.
Ousmane SembeneThe only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.
Ousmane SembeneI am really unable to talk about my life - I don't know my life. I've travelled a lot and this is the life that I have lived, but that doesn't mean that I know myself.
Ousmane SembeneIn our society, talking about sex is still a taboo, and of course many village chiefs don't want to hear about that issue. "You are trying to deviate us from our way of life, our traditions." And of course the argument they give is that these traditions date back to before our birth, and actually they accuse us of being funded by the outside world to subvert their way of life.
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