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Ceddo embody the resistance of a culture and a traditional way of life to the encroachments of Islam, Christianity and colonialism. The director argued: "I believe today that
Africans must get beyond the question of colour, they must recognise the problems which confront the whole world, as human beings like other human beings. If others undervalue us, that has no further significance for us. Africa must get beyond deriving everything from the European view. Africa must consider itself, recognise its problems and attempt to resolve them." He added "Often in Africa it's only the men who speak, but one forgets the role, interest of women. I think the princess is the incarnation of modern Africa
245:. Two members of the tribe try and fail to recapture the princess. Fearing their position is under threat, the local Imam inspires his muslim followers to kill the king and the white Christian slave-traders. They convert the entire village to Islam by force, and manage to recapture the princess. When returning to the village, Dior Yacine rallies the ceddo against the Muslims, and kills the Imam who has usurped her father.
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Ousmane said "I can't give a date. These events occurred in the 18th and 19th century and are still occurring". The story can be viewed as an abridged version of West-African history, and the village as a microcosm of the continent. For Sembène, the
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of the Wolof language, and of the first Wolof-language publications, and spoke with contempt about
President LĂŠopold SĂŠdar Senghor's knowledge of Wolof, or lack thereof. Senghor was a Serer, and in his language, unlike Wolof and other languages spoken in Senegal, consonants were not doubled.
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Sembène had also imposed a ban of his own, a refusal to make multiple prints of the film available to the agents of the Shah, for use in Iran as a propaganda weapon against the appeal of the
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