Tambay Obenson

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra at 100: a quiet construction

Before African cinema had institutions, support systems or even meaningful access to production tools, the Beninese Senegalese filmmaker and historian Paulin Soumanou Vieyra was laying its foundations. In celebration of the centenary of his birth, Akoroko founder Tambay Obenson retraces the triumphs of an unsung visionary.