Sada Niang

Sada Niang is Professor Emeritus of French and Francophone Studies. He holds a Ph.D from York University (Downsview, Ontario). His recent work focuses on postcolonial cinema, the cinema of Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) and Francophone women’s films.

Selected Publications

Djibril Diop Mambéty : un cinéaste à contre courant. (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2002) 238 p. [Text+interviews of the main actors in Diop’s films]         

Reviewed in African Studies Review; Vol.46, Issue 2, p.154, 2p. Online, see web site:

https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=1459

Reviewed in Notre Librairie; 149, p.136, 1 page.

Djibril Diop Mambéty, Cineasta Africano. (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Casa Africa, 2011), 83 pages. (Spanish Translation of a shortened version of Djibril Diop Mambéty : un cinéaste à contre courant, 2002)

Ousmane Sembene: Viatique pour l’éternité, Coedited with samba Gadjigo. (Dakar,  Papyrus, 2010)

Nationalist African Cinema: Legacy and Transformations: (Lanham,  Rowman Littlewood Press, 2014).

Fatou Diome, Une écrivaine de son temps. Special issue of Présence Francophone. No. 92, 2019. Coedited with Khady Fall-Diagne