YANDÉ CODOU, LA GRIOTTE DE SENGHOR

Directed by Angèle Diabang Brener

Senegal, 2008, 52 min.

Yandé Codou is an intimate look at 80-year-old Yandé Codou, one of the last great singers of polyphonic Sérère poetry in Senegal. As the griotte (oral historian and praise-singer) of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal’s first president-poet, she lived through decades of Senegalese history at his side. In Wolof, Sérère and French with English subtitles.