http://tags.library.upenn.edu/project/26491/ousmane_sembene PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/project/26491 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/project/26491 For this project, I have chosen to investigate Ousmane Sembene's 1975 film Xala. The film raises a multitude of issues pertaining to post-colonial African government and culture. Sembene largely criticizes the incompetence of the new governments, using the sexual impotence of the film's main character as a metaphor. For the research portion of the project, I sought to answer the following closely-related questions: How have post-colonial African peoples navigated the dichotomy between tradition and modernity in the realms of gender, sex and women