Africa’s Cannes moment explained by Malian film director

This year’s Carrosse d’Or award at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, went to Mali’s Souleymane Cissé, the veteran director credited with reinventing film as an African art form.

For Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, the Carrosse d’Or awarded by the Directors’ Fortnight is an incentive “to make new films” in the hope of overturning the “censorship” which, according to him, affects African cinemaThe 83-year-old Malian director…