Danny Glover to join homage to African film pioneer

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DAKAR (AFP) — American actor Danny Glover will attend a two-day event dedicated to Senegal's Ousmane Sembene, an African cinema pioneer who died last year, organisers of the event said Tuesday.

Glover is one of 60 international guests including filmmakers, writers, artists and academics invited to the event on June 9 and 10 in Dakar, organiser Amadou Tidiane Niangane said.

Sembene, a self-educated writer turned filmmaker, is credited with making the first African full length feature film with his 1966 film Black Girl.

Born into a fisherman's family in the southern region of Casamance in 1923 he moved to Dakar in the 1930s.

He held a series of jobs in Africa and Europe, as a mechanic, carpenter and builder and was conscripted into the French army in...