Ousmane Sow

Ousmane Sow, born on October 10, 1935, in Dakar, and died on December 1, 2016, in the same city, was a Senegalese sculptor. Ousmane Sow was born in Dakar to a mother from Saint-Louis and a father from Dakar, thirty years his senior. He grew up in Reubeuss, one of Dakar's toughest neighborhoods, where he received an extremely strict upbringing during which his father instilled responsibility in him from a very young…