Touki Bouki

Djibril Diop Mambety''s exuberant, inventive and urgent film Touki Bouki (The Journey of the Hyena) (1973) follows a young couple, Mory (Magaye Niang) and Anta (Mareme Niang), who dream of leaving their home in Dakar, Senegal for an imagined better life in Paris. Rosalind Galt''s insightful study analyses Touki Bouki ''s cinematic worlds, from its narrative of postcolonial migration to its influence by international film style, both nonetheless grounded in African visual cultures and critical perspectives. Touki Bouki explores the intertwined histories of the postcolonial and the transnational, exploring how the aesthetic and political ideas found in the experimentation of cinematic modernisms and New Waves are as African as they are European. Galt''s study interweaves a conceptual framework of world cinema studies and anti/decolonial theory with close analysis of Touki Bouki ''s innovative audiovisual forms and its representations of desire and identity in postcolonial Senegal. Providing a detailed reading of the film''s themes and cinematic style, she argues for its classic status and for its long-lasting influence on world cinema.

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Rosalind Galt

Product details

• Authors: Rosalind Galt, Galt Rosalind, Rosalind Galt
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 02.04.2026
• EAN: 9781839029004
• ISBN: 978-1-83902-900-4
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: BFI Film Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Senegal, HISTORY / Africa / West, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, West Africa, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Guides & Reviews, Film history, theory or criticism, Film guides and reviews