Tableau Ferraille
(Senegal, 1997, Directed by Moussa Sene Absa)
This film offers an intimate view of how modernization, at least as practiced in today's Africa, corrodes traditional communities and retards grassroots development. Like such past Senegalese masterpieces as Ousmane Sembene's Xala and Djibril Diop Mambety's Hyenas, it deplores a corrupt post-colonial elite's exploitation of the promise of African independence.
Post-film discussion moderated by Olubunmi Ashaolu