In troubled Sahel, memories of a cinematic golden age ...Kuwait

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French director Jean Rouch shot around 140 films, including many in the Sahel state of Niger, which started a golden Nigerian cinema age now fading. The wall of a house in Torokorobougou, a district in the Malian capital Bamako, suddenly lights up as a black-and-white film starts to roll. The audience falls silent as the title of the documentary, 'Sigui', flashes up on the screen. It's one of French director Jean Rouch's seminal films, charting a secret ceremony of central Mali's Dogon ethnic group which is held once every 60 years. Rouch, who died aged 86 in a road accident in Niger, is the only person to have ever recorded it. He shot around 140 films over his long career, including many i

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