Staff decided to delete my blog that I’d had for over a freaking decade (no idea why) and, after a week of trying and failing to get some kind of response to sort things out, this is me saying fuck it and starting over.
Yes, I’m really that MJ.
If you’re looking at this like 🤨 are you really tho? I specialize in wlw fluff and smut (and sometimes my stories even flow in that order 😉), and I deal exclusively in happily ever afters. I’ve written an ungodly amount of fic, published 13 books, and am so!! very!! close!! to finishing edits on book #14 - En Garde, the 4th (and likely final) book in the Symphony series. You can find all my books on my amazon page.
Is that enough? I hope that’s enough…
If you’d be so kind as to rb this to spread awareness about my new (and probably not necessarily improved — but, hey!, it’s new!) blog, I’d really appreciate it.
Ousmane Sembene was a Senegalese author, actor, screenwriter, director, producer, historian, poet, communist organizer and philosopher. He was the first person to ever make a film in an indigenous african language (he often wrote in Senegalese and Lebu Wolof), and he spent much of his life working to dismantle French imperialism, capitalist resource hoarding, and patriarchal violence against women. He’s one of those historical figures whose biography reads as too cool to be true but he truly was that kind of guy.
Unfortunately, most of his films, especially his later work, are hard to access or purchase in western/anglophone markets- I think the criterion collection carries a few of his older films? That being said, a lot of his books were translated into English and are particularly good- God’s Bits of Wood and Xala are definitely the most beginner friendly works from his collection and are pretty easy to find second hand. If you enjoy Western authors and artists like Albert Camus, Emile Zola, or Zora Neale Hurston you’ll definitely appreciate his writing. His work is also influenced by socialist realism, the Harlem renaissance, and Senegalese oral tradition. Compared to other famous west african writers (like Chinua Achebe, or Ngugi wa Thiong’o) Sembene works a lot of satire, irony, and humor into his writings, and his work really strives towards describing African joy, hardship, and community.
He’s such a cool artist and deserves to be more commonly known in the West, especially in Anglophone and Francophone cultures :)
