La Noire de… (Black Girl) is the third film produced by Senegalese film producer, director, and writer Ousmane Sembène following Borom Sarret in 1963 and Niaye in 1964. Black Girl is one of his more prominent pieces of work, a significant feat given its release in 1966 during the premature years of Sembène’s career.

Ousmane Sembène was an incredibly talented, pioneering novelist and filmmaker from Senegal, who is critically acclaimed as the father of African cinema. Sembène, in an interview on French television, fantastically put forward his view that ‘Africa is not only about animals, trees and men. Africa is her conception of life, her philosophy, her stories’.