I, a Negro 1959

Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for work.

Cast

Oumarou Ganda

Petit Touré

Alassane Maiga

Amadou Demba

Gambi

Seydou Guede

Karidyo Faoudou

Edmond Bernus