Albert Johnson teaches film in the Department of Afro-American Studies. A recognized authority on the Black American and Third World cinemas, as well as the American musical, he has lectured on these subjects throughout Africa, Asia and Europe. He is a former director of the San Francisco International Film Festival, and his annual series, Third World Cinema and Images of Minorities in Film, are regular features of the PFA program.

Borom Sarret
“Ousmane Sembene's essay on Senegalese street life follows a borom sarret, a cart driver, through the city of Dakar. Ly Abdoulaye manages to earn a meager living for his family by transporting people and goods through the shantytown. As in Baara, Ly's travels are a device for introducing us to the hardships of urban life. His passengers include an old woman, a man carrying his dead child to the cemetery, a pregnant woman. Before the day is over, Ly is cheated out of his wages and then loses his cart after an affluent man convinces him to go into a fashionable but restricted part of town. The irony of the cart driver's mono-
logue and Sembene's economical visual style makes for a highly effective film essay.” Renee Tajima