Screening Times
Thursday, March 4th 2010, 8:15pm, Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104 Women Filmmakers Week. Thursday Evening Documentary Series. Sponsored by Linfield College.
All films are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
YANDÉ CODOU, LA GRIOTTE DE SENGHOR
Directed by Angèle Diabang Brener
Senegal, 2008, 52 min.
Yandé Codou is an intimate look at 80-year-old Yandé Codou, one of the last great singers of polyphonic Sérère poetry in Senegal. As the griotte (oral historian and praise-singer) of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal’s first president-poet, she lived through decades of Senegalese history at his side. In Wolof, Sérère and French with English subtitles.
