Walks of Life
As The Cat Has Nine Lives goes on, its bright colors and floral images come to seem stifling and even cruel. They engulf the women at the center of the film, hemming them in and sharpening their sadness.
The Cat Has Nine Lives
By Any Means Necessary
IN HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY, THERE WERE CHEIKH ANTA Diop and Joseph Ki-Zerbo; in politics, the likes of Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, and Malcolm X; in critical studies, Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire; and in cinema, Ousmane Sembèn
