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Le Mandat
Aje, S. O. "L'Importance de l'ecriture en tant qu'institution sociale dans L'Argent (Emile Zola), Le roi des Aulnes (Michel Tournier) et Le mandat (Ousmane Sembene)." Neohelicon, 16, 1 (1989): 237-255
Xala

Bayo, Ogunjimi. "Ritual Archetypes: Ousmane's Aesthetic Medium in 'Xala'" Ufahamu, 14, 3 (1985): 128-138.

Gabriel, Teshome H. “Xala A cinema of wax and gold”. Jump Cut 27 (July, 1982): 31-33
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 1982, 2005 <http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC27folder/XalaGabriel.html>. (originally appeared in Presence Africaine 116 in French).

Iyam, David Uru. “The Silent Revolutionaries: Ousmane Sembene's Emitai, Xala and Ceddo”. African Studies Review 29.4, (Dec., 1986): 79-87.

Landy, Marcia. “Political Allegory and « Engaged Cinema »: Sembene's « Xala »”. Cinema Journal 23.3 (Spring, 1984): 31-46.

Lyons, Harriet D. “The Uses of Ritual in Sembene’s Xala”. Canadian Journal of African Studies 18.2 (1984): 319-328.

Mushengyezi, Aaron. "Reimaging Gender and African Tradition? Ousmane Sembene's Xala revisited". Africa Today 51.1 (Fall 2004): 47-62.

Pfaff, Françoise. "Three faces of Africa: Women in Xala". Jump Cut 27 (July, 1982): 27-31
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 1982, 2005 <http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC27folder/XalaPfaff.html>.

Ceddo

Cancel, Robert. "Epic Element in 'Ceddo.'" Current Bibliography on African Affairs, 18, 1 (1985-19860: 3-19.

Iyam, David Uru. “The Silent Revolutionaries: Ousmane Sembene's Emitai, Xala and Ceddo”. African Studies Review 29.4, (Dec., 1986): 79-87.

Presence Africaine
Cham, Mbye Baboucar. "Art and Ideology in the Work of Ousmane Sembene and Haile Gerima." Presence Africaine, 129, 1 (19840: 79-91.
Le docker noir

Feuser, Willifried F. "Richard Wright's Native son and Ousmane Sembene's Le dockeer noir." Komparatistische-Hefte, 14 (1986): 103-116.

Thomas, Dominic Richard David. “Intertextuality, Plagiarism, and Recycling in Ousmane Sembene's Le docker noir (Black Docker)”. Research in African Literatures 37.1 (Spring 2006): 72-90.

Les bouts des bois de Dieu

Aguiar, Marian. “Smoke of the Savannah: Traveling modernity in Sembene Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood”. MFS Modern Fiction Studies 49.2 (2003): 284-305.

Aire, Victor O. “Didactic Realism in Ousmane Sembene's Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu”. Canadian Journal of African Studies 11.2: (1977): 283-294.

Aire, Victor O. “Ousmane Sembene's « Les bouts de bois de Dieu »: A Lesson in Consciousness”. Modern Language Studies 8.2: (Spring, 1978): 72-79.

Camara, Arthur Hindovei. “God's Bits of Wood/ Les bouts de bois de Dieu”. Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Dialogues. July, 2001. Western Michigan University. 6 May 2002. <http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/godsbitsofwood.htm>.

Case, F. "Workers Movements: Revolution and Women's Consciousness in God's Bits of Wood". Canadian Journal of African Studies 15.2 (1981): 277-292.

Cooper, Frederick. "« Our Strike »: Equality, Anticolonial Politics and the 1947-48 Railway Strike in French West Africa”. The Journal of African History 37.1 (1996): 81-118.

Gillard, Garry. “Handling of action”. Formal Aspects of Fictive Narrative in Africa. Murdoch University, Australia. 5 Aug. 1996. <http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~gillard/AfrNarr/ch4.html>. (MPhil dissertation, Murdoch University, 1977).

Gyasi, Kwaku Addae. "From God's Bits of Wood to Smouldering Charcoal : Decolonization, Class Struggle, and the Role of Women's Consciousness in Postcolonial West Africa". French Colonial History 5 (2004): 173-191.

Harrow, Kenneth W. “Art and Ideology in Les Bouts de bois de Dieu: Realism's Artifices”. The French Review 62.3 (Feb., 1989): 483-493.

Jones, James A. “Fact and Fiction in God’s Bits of Wood”. Research in African Literatures 31.2 (Summer 2000): 117-131.

Linkhorn, Renée. “L'Afrique de Demain: Femmes en marche dans l'oeuvre de Sembene Ousmane”. Modern Language Studies 16.3 (Summer, 1986): 69-76.

Murphy, David. Sembene: Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction. James Currey, 2000.

Oje, S. Ade. Revolt, "Violence and Duty in Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood." Nigeria Magazine, 53, 3 (July-September 1985): 58-68.

Sacks, Karen. “Women and Class Struggle in Sembene's « God's Bits of Wood »”. Signs 4.2 (Winter, 1978): 363-370.

Emitai

Iyam, David Uru. “The Silent Revolutionaries: Ousmane Sembene's Emitai, Xala and Ceddo”. African Studies Review 29.4, (Dec., 1986): 79-87.

Peter's, Jonathan A. "Aesthetics and Ideology in African Film: Ousmane Sembene's 'Emitai.'" African Literature in Its Social and Political Dimensions, ed. Eileen Julien, Mildred Mortimer, and Curtis Schade. Washington: Three Continents Press (1986): 69-75.

Steven, Peter. “The Classic. Emitai... being the first dramatic film of the liberated sub-Saharan cinema”. Reviews. 1996. New Internationalist. <http://www.newint.org/issue276/reviews.htm>.

Camp de Thiaroye
Echenberg, Myron. “« Morts Pour la France »; The African Soldier in France During the Second World War”. The Journal of African History 26.4 World War II and Africa (1985): 363-380.

Leahy, James. “Camp de Thiaroye”. Senses of Cinema. 1989, 2003. <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/03/28/camp_de_thiaroye.html>.
La noire de...

Landy, Marsha. "Politics and style in Black Girl". Jump Cut 27 (July, 1982): 23-25
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 1982, 2005 <http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC27folder/BlackGirlLandy.html>.

Linkhorn, Renée. “L'Afrique de Demain: Femmes en marche dans l'oeuvre de Sembene Ousmane”. Modern Language Studies 16.3 (Summer, 1986): 69-76

Pallister, Janis L. “From « La Noire de... » to « Milk and Honey »: Portraits of the Alienated African Woman”. Modern Language Studies 22.4 (Autumn, 1992): 76-87

Spass, Lieve. “Female Domestic Labor and Third World Politics in La Noire de…” Jump Cut 27 (July, 1982): 26-27. Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. 1982, 2005. <http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC27folder/BlackGirlSpaas.html>.

Faat Kine
  Samba Gadjigo's "Faat Kine"
Moolaadé
  Samba Gadjigo's "The Making of Moolaadé" (documentary, 2004)