Hyenas (French: Hyènes) is a 1992 Senegalese film adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Swiss-German satirical tragicomedy play The Visit (1956),[1] directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty.

The intimate story of love and revenge parallels a critique of neocolonialism and African consumerism.

[2] Hyenas tells the story of Linguere Ramatou, an aging, wealthy woman who revisits her home village of Colobane.

Linguere offers a disturbing proposition to the people of Colobane and lavishes luxuries upon them to persuade them.

This embittered woman, "as rich as the World Bank", will bestow upon Colobane a fortune in exchange for the murder of Dramaan Drameh, a local shopkeeper who abandoned her after a love affair and her illegitimate pregnancy when she was seventeen.