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Ken Bugul (Niemand will sie)
Credits
Name: Ken Bugul (Niemand will sie)
Country: Schweiz
Year of publication: 2013
Color: color
Language : OF m. dt. UT
Duration: 62 Minuten
Direction: Voser, Silvia
Camera: von Muralt, Felix
Editing: Seck, Souleymane K.
Sound: Honvoh, Arès; Weber, Tom
Guest: Voser, Silvia; Bugul, Ken
Abstract
A Cinematic Portrait of the Grande Dame of Senegalese Literature
Ken Bugul, a name hailing from the Wolof language, is the pseudonym of a writer who lives where her soul feels at home – in a land in Africa.
Ken Bugul is one of the most significant writers from the African continent writing in French. Her personal history has been informed by the developments of Africa. In 1947, she was born in a village in Senegal, then still a French colony. As the first girl from her family to attend school, she graduated with excellent marks. In 1971, upon receiving a scholarship, she flew to Europe to pursue her studies. Once there, she encountered new ideologies, ideas of freedom, modern art, drugs, alcohol; experienced loneliness and disrespect, and witnessed the use of prostitution as a remedy for lack of affection. In the film, Ken Bugul returns to important places that have been the setting for significant events in her life. She recalls the moment when, after her years in Europe, she returned to Senegal as a 30-year-old woman, devastated and alone. Yet as she began to write she discovered her path. Filmmaker Silvia Voser shows the image of a woman full of energy, and traces the writer`s narratives with remarkable imagery.