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List Of Malians
Academics and Writers Academics *Sidibé Aminata Diallo Scholars of Sankore Madrasah Scholars wrote their own books as part of a socioeconomic model. Students were charged with copying these books and any other books they could get their hands on. Today there are over 700,000 manuscripts in Timbuktu with many dating back to West Africa's Golden Age (12th-16th centuries). *Ahmad Baba al Massufi (1556–1627) *Mohammed Bagayogo *Al-Qadi Aqib ibn Mahmud ibn Umar Writers *Ahmad Baba al Massufi (1556–1627) * Abdoulaye Ascofaré (born 1949) *Ibrahima Aya (born 1967) *Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1900–1991) *Adame Ba Konaré (born 1947) *Massa Makan Diabaté (1938–1988) *Souéloum Diagho * Aïda Mady Diallo * Alpha Mandé Diarra (born 1954) * Doumbi Fakoly (born 1944) * Aoua Kéita (1912–1980) * Moussa Konaté * Yambo Ouologuem (born 1940) * Oumou Armand Diarra (born 1967) * Bernadette Sanou Dao (born 1952) *Aminata Traoré (born 1942) * Falaba Issa Traoré (1930–2003) * Mady Ibra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidibé Aminata Diallo
Sidibé Aminata Diallo (born 1950) is a Malian academic and politician. Academia Diallo gained her doctorate in development and urban studies from the University of Toulouse in 1984. She is a member of the faculty of Economic Sciences and Management at the University of Bamako, where she specializes in land management.Almahady Cissé"A Presidential Election That Breaks With Tradition" Inter Press Service (allAfrica.com), 24 April 2007. Politics On 12 March 2007, Diallo declared her candidacy for the position of President. She was one of 8 candidates contesting the April 2007 presidential election. She was also the first female presidential candidate ever in Mali and was running as the candidate of the Movement for Environmental Education and Sustainable Development The Rally for Education about Sustainable Development (, REDD) is a political party in Mali. It contested the presidential election on 29 April 2007 with the candidate Sidibé Aminata Diallo, who took seventh place wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yambo Ouologuem
Yambo Ouologuem (August 22, 1940 – October 14, 2017) was a Malian writer. His first novel, ''Le devoir de violence'' (English: ''Bound to Violence'', 1968), won the Prix Renaudot. He later published ''Lettre à la France nègre'' (1969), and ''Les mille et une bibles du sexe'' (1969) under the pseudonym Utto Rodolph. ''Le devoir de violence'' was initially well-received, but critics later charged that Ouologuem had plagiarized passages from Graham Greene and other established authors. Ouologuem turned away from the Western press as a result of the matter, and remained reclusive for the rest of his life. Life Yambo Ouologuem was born an only son in an aristocratic Malian family in 1940 in Bandiagara, the main city in the Dogon region of Mali (then a part of French Soudan). His father was a prominent landowner and school inspector. He learned several African languages and gained fluency in French, English, and Spanish. After matriculating at a Lycée in the capital city of Bamako ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baba Sissoko
Baba Sissoko (born 8 March 1963) is a percussionist from Mali. Career Born and raised in Bamako,Di Fazio, Di Maurizio (2015)Baba Sissoko: "La paura è una malattia. Quando cominci ad averla sei già spacciato", ''L'Espresso'', 21 November 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2017 from childhood, he played Talking drum, tamani, often accompanying the traditional female griot during wedding and other traditional ceremonies. In 1985, he toured internationally with the prestigious Instrumental Ensemble of Mali orchestra, playing the tamani and Ngoni (instrument), ngoni. In 1991, he founded his trio, Baba Sissoko & Taman Kan, and began extensively collaborating with top Malian artists and international musicians. His work with Habib Koité is notable as their collaboration lasted 12 years and was widely celebrated. In 1995, Baba Sissoko released his first album with Tama-Kan. Baba Sissoko's Taman Kan bandmates are Roger Sabal Lecco (who has played bass with Manu Dibango, Miriam Makeba, Fela K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdoulaye Diabaté
Abdoulaye Diabaté is a singer and guitarist who was born to a griot family in Kela, Mali in 1956.Adoulaye Diabaté, singer , ''fula flute music''. 2002. Retrieved 2 June 2007. ''Completely Nuts Records''. Retrieved 2 June 2004.DJOSS DIABATE: Haklima ''CD BABY''. Retrieved 2 June 2007. He has at least twenty years of experience in contemporary and popular music. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griot
A griot (; ; Manding: jali or jeli (in N'Ko: , ''djeli'' or ''djéli'' in French spelling); Serer: kevel or kewel / okawul; Wolof: gewel) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician. The griot is a repository of oral tradition and is often seen as a leader due to their position as an advisor to royal personages. As a result of the former of these two functions, they are sometimes called bards. They also act as mediators in disputes. Occurrence and naming Many griots today live in many parts of West Africa and are present among the Mande peoples ( Mandinka or Malinké, Bambara, Soninke etc.), Fulɓe (Fula), Hausa, Songhai, Tukulóor, Wolof, Serer,Unesco. Regional Office for Education in Africa, ''Educafrica, Numéro 11'', (ed. Unesco, Regional Office for Education in Africa, 1984), p. 110Hale, Thomas Albert, ''Griots and Griottes: Masters of Words and Music'', Indiana University Press (1998), p. 176, Mossi, Dagomba, Mauritan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidy Fassara Diabaté
Sidy Fassara Diabaté (born 1950) is a Malian film director. Biography Born in Bamako, Diabaté attended Bamako High School. He furthered his studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Bamako and graduated in 1974. Diabaté was a history and geography teacher at Lycée Notre Dame du Niger and was assigned to oversee baccalaureate examinations. In 1979, he opted to pursue a cinematic career after taking part in a competition organized by the Ministry of Information. He was not initially interested in the cinema, but came to see it as an excellent means of cultural expression. Diabaté trained in filmmaking at the Centre National de Production Cinématographique. In 1986, he directed his first short film, ''Veillée à Bolongué''. Diabaté led the committee the drafted the law on the film industry from 1991 to 1998. He formed his reputation by doing internships in Mali and Burkina Faso. He took a backpack officer course. In 2003, Diabaté directed his first documentary, ''Le Mali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheick Oumar Sissoko
Cheick Oumar Sissoko (born 1945 in San, Mali) is a Malian film director and politician. Biography As a student in Paris, Cheick Oumar Sissoko obtained a DEA in African History and Sociology and a diploma in History and Cinema from the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. He then continued his studies in cinema at the Ecole nationale Louis Lumière. On his return to Mali, he took up directing at the ''Centre National de la Production C inématographique (CNPC)'', where he directed ''Sécheresse et Exode rural'' ("Drought and Rural Exodus"). In 1995, he directed ''Guimba'' (The Tyrant), which won special jury prizes at the International Film Festival of Locarno, and ''l'Etalon de Yennenga'' ("Stallion of Yennenga") at FESPACO (the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou). In 1999, '' La Genèse'' (Genesis) was released, which won Sissoko another ''Etalon de Yennenga'' at FESPACO. In 2000, he directed ''Battù'', based on a novel by Aminata Sow Fall whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assane Kouyaté
Assane Kouyaté (born 1954) is a Malian film director. Biography Assane Kouyaté was born in Bamako in 1954. In 1976 he got his degree in arts from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako, then went to the Moscow Institute of Cinema and Television, where he got his Diploma of Study of Cinema in 1989. In 1988, he worked with Russian director Sergei Salaviov as an assistant on the movie ''Pigeon''. He has collaborated with many directors worldwide, such as the Argentine Pablo César (''Aphrodite'', 1998). In 2002, he produced his first full-length film of his own: ''Kabala'', which tells the story of a Mandé village whose well dries up. ''Kabala'' won both the award for best screenplay and the Special Jury Prize at the pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television at Ouagadougou Ouagadougou ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adama Drabo
Adama Drabo (1948 - July 15, 2009) was a Malian filmmaker and playwright. Biography Drabo was in the Malian capital of Bamako, Mali, where he showed an interest in film since his childhood. For ten years, he was a schoolteacher in a Malian village, and in his spare time he painted and wrote plays. His career in film began as a hobby. In 1979, he joined the Centre national de production cinématographique (CNPC). There, he worked with Film director, director Cheick Oumar Sissoko as an assistant director on the 1986 film ''Nyamanton'' and the 1989 film ''Finzan''. In 1988, he produced a short film, ''Nieba, la journée d'une paysanne''. In 1991, he produced his first full-length film, ''Fire! (1991 film), Ta Dona'' (Au feu!), which was nominated for the Gold Lion prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, and featured at FESPACO. It was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. In 1997, he produced ''Taafé Fanga'', which tells the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Souleymane Cissé (film Director)
Souleymane Cissé (born April 21, 1940) is a Malian film director, regarded as one of the first generation of African filmmakers. He has been called "Africa's greatest living filmmaker" while his film ''Yeelen'' has been called "conceivably the greatest African film ever made." Biography Born in Bamako and raised in a Muslim family, Souleymane Cissé was a passionate cinephile from childhood. He attended secondary school in Dakar and returned to Mali in 1960 after national independence. His film career began as an assistant projectionist for a documentary on the arrest of Patrice Lumumba. This triggered his desire to create films of his own, and he obtained a scholarship at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, the Moscow school of Cinema and Television. In 1970 he returned to Mali, and joined the Ministry of Information as a cameraman, where he produced documentaries and short films. Two years later, he produced his first medium-length film, ''Cinq jours d’une vie'' (''Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mady Ibrahim Kante
Mady is a given name and a surname(rarely it may also be used as a nickname). It is considered to be a unisex name. Given name Women * Mady Berry (1887–1965), French stage and film actress * Mady Christians (1892–1951), Austrian-born German actress * Mady Correll (1907–1981), Canadian-American actress * Mady Delvaux-Stehres (born 1950), Luxembourgian politician * Mady Hornig (born 1957), American psychiatrist and associate professor of epidemiology * Mady Mesplé (1931–2020), French opera singer * Mady Rahl (1915–2009), German actress * Mady Villiers (born 1998), English cricketer Men * Mady Camara (born 1997), Guinean footballer * Mady Sissoko (born 2000), Malian basketball player Surname * Abou Elela Mady (born 1952), Egyptian engineer and politician * Lamar Mady (born 1990), American football player * Levente Mady (born 1959), Canadian swimmer See also * Maddy, a given name * Maddy (surname) * Unisex name *Maddie Maddy or Maddie is a shortened form of the femi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falaba Issa Traoré
Falaba Issa Traoré (1930 – August 8, 2003) was a Malian writer, comedian, playwright, and theatre and film director. Born in Bougouni, Traoré directed an amateur theater troupe before taking over direction of the regional troupe of Bamako between 1962 and 1968. From 1969 to 1973, he created and directed the Yankadi troupe for folklore and the dramatic arts. In 1973, he traveled to Germany to study cinema Cinema may refer to: Film * Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography * Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image ** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking * ... direction. On returning to Mali in 1976 he directed the cinema division of the Ministry of Sports, Arts, and Culture. As a comedian, Traoré played notable roles in the films of Kalifa Dienta (''A Banna''), of Cheick Oumar Sissoko (''Nidiougou Guimba''), and of Boubacar Sidibé (''le pacte social'', ''Sanoudié'', and ''N'Tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
