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Blondin Diop: A Senegalese Visionary

Blondin Diop: A Senegalese Visionary

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 17, 2020

Runtime

1h 18m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

80%

Original Title

Quelle que soit la longueur de la nuit

Director

Vincent Meessen

Description

After being expelled from France for his subversive communist activities, the Senegalese Maoist activist and artist Omar Blondin Diop (1946-73) returned to Dakar, where he joined the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa and, with his incendiary speeches against colonialism, challenged the power embodied by Léopold Sédar Senghor, president of Senegal.