Djibril Diop Mambety’s deeply ironic and biting commentary on the divided city that was Dakar in 1969: on the one hand, colonial, affluent and pompous, on the other, indigenous, poor but genuine.
In this 21-minute journey around Dakar, Senegalese director Mambety is as caustic about the corrupting influence of the West as he is in his feature films Hyenas and Touki Bouki. As the camera cuts from one side of town to the other, juxtaposing the imposed with the vernacular, the viewer is left in little doubt as to the ravages of colonial rule – on both the colonised and the coloniser.
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