Aminata Diallo Glez (born 1972) is a
Burkinabé filmmaker, actor, and producer also known as Kadi Jolie.
[Aminata Diallo Glez: Itinéraire d’une comédienne sans fard]
LeFaso.net, 31 December 2009. Accessed 30 July 2020.
Life
Born in
Dori, Burkina Faso, Aminata Diallo is one of nine children of Hassane Diallo, a veterinary doctor, and Mandy Togoyéni. She hoped as a child to be a doctor, but her father died in 1983, when she was in high school. She continued her education in Wemtenga, a district of
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 ...
. After encountering
Théâtre de la fraternité, the theatre troupe of
Jean-Pierre Guingané, she joined the troupe after school. Instead of taking up a place to study linguistics at the University of Ouagadougou, she became a full-time actor, touring with Théâtre de la fraternité.
[
In the early 1990s Fanta Regina Nacro offered her a role in the film ''Puk-Nini'', which started Diallo's new career as a screen actress. As the principal heroine of the TV series ''Kadi jolie'', she acquired an Africa-wide following.][
She started her own TV production company, Jovial Productions, which has produced series including 'Trois hommes, un village' (winner of Best Series at FESPACO 2005), ''Trois femmes, un village'' and ''Super flics'' (or ''Marc and Malika''). In 2006 she also founded an art festival, "Fet' Arts".][
She is married to Damien Glez, the cartoonist for '']Jeune Afrique
''Jeune Afrique'' (English: ''Young Africa'') is a French-language pan-African weekly news magazine, founded in 1960 in Tunis and subsequently published in Paris. It is the most widely read pan-African magazine. It is also a book publisher, unde ...
''.
For a while she retired from public life to care for her mother, who had cancer, and who died in 2019.[Daouda Zongo]
Nécrologie: inhumation de la mère de Kadi jolie au cimetière de Gounghin ce mardi
''Wakat Séra'', 15 October 2019. Accessed 30 July 2020.
Filmography
Producer
* ''Super flics'' (2008)
* ''Trois femmes, un village'' (2009)
Actress
* ''Puk Nini de Fanta Régina Nacro'' (1996) as Ada
* ''Conseils d'une tante d'Idrissa Ouedraogo'' (2001) as Kadi Jolie
* ''Kadi Jolie d'Idrissa Ouedraogo'' (2001) as Kadi Jolie
External links
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References
1972 births
Living people
Burkinabé film producers
21st-century Burkinabé people
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