Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Yeelen originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Usually with African cinema, we get neorealist parables and socio-political allegories from luminaries like Ousmane Sembene, Djibril Diop Mambéty,...
Title: Yeelen (aka The Light or Brightness) Year: 1987 Director: Souleymane Cisse Cast: Issiaka Kane, Niamanto Sanogo, Monzon Coumare, Souleymane Coumare Synopsis: Yeelen follows the travels of Nianankoro, the son of a shaman who is traveling the 13th century Mali...
