I, a Negro

Moi, un noir takes place in Ivory Coast in the city of Abidjan and. It features the first time an African person described his own life in his own language. The main character, under the role name Edouard G. Robinson, was a harbor worker, whose real name was Oumarou Ganda, and who later became a notable Nigerien film director.
Satu Laaksonen / Translation: Timo Koski (DocPoint)