English's Christopher Wise appears in new documentary
WWU Professor of English Christopher Wise recently appeared in a documentary on the Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem, the controversial author of The Duty of Violence. After winning acclaim for his writing in the late 1960s, Ouologuem returned to Mali and became a devout Muslim in the Tijaniyya Sufi order.
Senegalese filmmaker Kalidou Sy created the documentary, which was nominated for the Thomas Sakara Prize at FESPACO (Africa's longest-running film festival) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in 2025.