Djibril Diop Mambéty

Djibril Diop Mambéty January 1945 July 23 1998 was a Senegalese film director actor orator composer and poet Though he made only two feature films and five short films they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and nonlinear unconventional narrative style Born to a Muslim family near Dakar Senegals capital city Mambéty was Wolof He died in 1998 while being treated for lung cancer in a Paris hospital