In the 1970s. Searing critiques of colonialism, political corruption, patriarchal arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three features from this decadethe radical call to resistance Emitaï, the wickedly subversive satire Xala, and the controversial historical epic Ceddoconfirmed his standing as a fearless truth-teller for whom the camera was the ultimate weapon in the fight against oppression in all its forms. Emitaï (1971)With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during World War II when French colonial forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola people and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. As the tribes patriarchal leaders pray and make sacrifices to their gods, the women in the community refuse to yield their harvests, incurring the French armys wrath. With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped Senegalese history, Emitaï explores the strains that colonialism places upon cultural traditions a