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?