Glover is one of 60 international guests including filmmakers, writers, artists and academics invited to the event on June 9 and 10 in Dakar, organiser Amadou Tidiane Niangane said.
Sembene, a self-educated writer turned filmmaker, is credited with making the first African full length feature film with his 1966 film Black Girl.
Born into a fisherman's family in the southern region of Casamance in 1923 he moved to Dakar in the 1930s.
He held a series of jobs in Africa and Europe, as a mechanic, carpenter and builder and was conscripted into the French army in World War II, subsequently becoming a labourer and docker before turning to writing and cinema

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