@archiveafrica * Senegal 🇸🇳* Stills from the film Tauw by Ousmane Sembène/1970. Tauw is one of Sembène’s early short works. It tells the story of two brothers in the generation after independence. Tauw, an unemployed 20-year-old, must deal with the consequences of the shifting morality and stifled job market in urban Senegal, while 11-year old Ouman must confront the contradictions of his religious instruction. Naturalistic in its presentation, Tauw dramatizes how unprepared both are to face the realities presented by a changing society. Although the story is a simple one, it is forcefully drawn and still poignant. Words via https://africanfilmny.org/films/tauw/ Stills via @idelrasheed on TT - - - - - - - #mali #art #africa #nigeria #senegal #cameroon #carribean #africanart #eastafrica #youth #jamaica #westafrica #architecture #35mm #africanphotography #sudan #culture #fashion #southafrica #africanarchitecture #anthroplogy #ethiopia #Lagos #photography #southafrica #dance #Eritrea #eastafrica #cinema #film #benin #somalia
instagram.com@archiveafrica * Senegal 🇸🇳* Stills from the film Tauw by Ousmane Sembène/1970. Tauw is one of Sembène’s early short works. It tells the story of two brothers in the generation after independence. Tauw, an unemployed 20-year-old, must deal with the consequences of the shifting morality and stifled job market in urban Senegal, while 11-year old Ouman must confront the contradictions of his religious instruction. Naturalistic in its presentation, Tauw dramatizes how unprepared both are to face the realities presented by a changing society. Although the story is a simple one, it is forcefully drawn and still poignant. Words via https://africanfilmny.org/films/tauw/ Stills via @idelrasheed on TT - - - - - - - #mali #art #africa #nigeria #senegal #cameroon #carribean #africanart #eastafrica #youth #jamaica #westafrica #architecture #35mm #africanphotography #sudan #culture #fashion #southafrica #africanarchitecture #anthroplogy #ethiopia #Lagos #photography #southafrica #dance #Eritrea #eastafrica #cinema #film #benin #somalia
But despite these hopeful words, a look of desperate resignation passed between the two men. They knew the absentee landlords over in London didn’t care about the natives, so long as their plum Irish land continued to yield hearty profits, so long as the grains and cattle they extorted from Ireland continued to fetch their English fortunes.