Aï Keïta Yara is a
Burkinabè actress
who played the lead role in the 1986 film
Sarraounia
Sarraounia Mangou was a chief/priestess of the animist Azna subgroup of the Hausa people , Hausa, who fought French colonial troops of the Voulet–Chanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou (in present-day Niger) in 1899. She is the subject of th ...
.
Career
Her first movie was ''
Sarraounia
Sarraounia Mangou was a chief/priestess of the animist Azna subgroup of the Hausa people , Hausa, who fought French colonial troops of the Voulet–Chanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou (in present-day Niger) in 1899. She is the subject of th ...
'' (1986), where she played
Sarraounia
Sarraounia Mangou was a chief/priestess of the animist Azna subgroup of the Hausa people , Hausa, who fought French colonial troops of the Voulet–Chanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou (in present-day Niger) in 1899. She is the subject of th ...
, the
queen
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the movie is named after. ''Sarraounia'' won several awards, after which she was able to act in more movies and television shows, including the 2004 comedy-drama ''
Tasuma
Tasuma is a 2004 comedy-drama directed, written and produced by Kollo Daniel Sanou which tells the story of a Burkinabé war veteran who had fought for France abroad returning to his home village.
Plot
Sogo (Mamadou Zerbo) is a war-battered vet ...
''. She has appeared in about 30 films
including the 1995 film ''Haramuya'' and the 2018 film ''
The Three Lascars'' (
French
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: ''Les trois lascars).''
As of 2011, she was working as a civil servant processing medical records at Yalgado National Hospital Center in
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, with a population of 2,415,266 in 2019. The city's n ...
.
Personal life
Keïta is married with two children, and speaks
Fula,
Dyula,
Mooré
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,
Zarma and French.
Her maternal grandfather was born in Senegal, before travelling to Burkina Faso with his first wife.
When he arrived in Burkina Faso he married a woman from the village of Mardaga in
Tapoa Province who later became Keïta's maternal grandmother.
References
External links
*
Aï Keïta Yara on Africultures(in
French
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)
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Burkinabé film actors
People from Ouagadougou
Burkinabé women
Hospital administrators
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century Burkinabé actors
21st-century Burkinabé actors