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Samba Gadjigo was born on 12 October, 1954 in Kidira, Senegal, is a filmmaker. Discover Samba Gadjigo's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Director, producer, screenwriter, lecturer
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 12 October 1954
Birthday 12 October
Birthplace Kidira, Senegal
Nationality Senegal

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2016

In 2016, Gadjigo received the Faculty Award for Scholarship. Apart from filmmaking, he is also a prolific author and contributed with African Cinema and Human Rights, Research in African Literatures, and Contributions in Black Studies. In March 2016, he was honored with Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship from Mount Holyoke College.

2015

In 2015, he directed the film Sembene! along with Jason Silverman. The film was based on the life of Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène often known as the father of African cinema. The film had its first public screening at Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The film received critical acclaim and won several awards and accolades at international film festivals. The film was a finalist for the Camera d’Or in the 2015 Cannes Film Festival as well as won the Jury Prize at the 2016 Luxor African Film Festival. It also won the Prix de la Jeuness at the 2017 Escales Documentaires de Libreville and then won the Paul Robeson Prize at the 2016 Newark Black Film Festival. The film later received the Prize for Best Documentary at the Emerge Film Festival.

1954

Samba Gadjigo (born 12 October 1954), is a Senegalese filmmaker and writer. He is most notable as the director of critically acclaimed film Sembene!.

He was born on 12 October 1954 in Kidira, Senegal. He graduated from the University of Dakar and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Dakar. Then he received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently works as the Professor of French in Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts since 1986.

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