Portal:Africa/Did you know/6

... that Safi Faye's 1975 film Kaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributed feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman?
... that legendary princess Yennenga, the "mother" of the Mossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry?
... that Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa?
...that Mohamed Camara's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality?