Mambaye Coulibaly (1957–2015) was a Malian film director, who pioneered
animation
Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...
in
African cinema
Cinema of Africa is both the history and present of the making or screening of films on the African continent, and also refers to the persons involved in this form of audiovisual culture. It dates back to the early 20th century, when film reels w ...
.
Life
Mambaye Coulibaly was born on 2 May 1957 in
Kayes. After studying law, he turned to film in 1987.
[Assane Koné]
Cinéma malien en deuil : Mambaye Coulibaly, le précurseur du cinéma d’animation africain n’est plus
''MaliWeb'', 13 February 2015. ''La Geste de Ségou!'' (1989), for which Coulibaly also wrote the music, was an animated short film inspired by historical events in the
Bambara Empire
The Bamana Empire (also Bambara Empire or Ségou Empire, bm, italics=no, ߓߊ߲ߓߊߙߊ߲߫ ߝߊ߯ߡߟߊ, Banbaran Fāmala) was a large West African state based at Ségou, now in Mali. This state was established after the fall of the Mali Emp ...
of
Ségou.
[Mambaye Coulibaly, réalisateur : Le précurseur du cinéma d’animation africain a tiré sa révérence]
''Malijet'', 28 February 2015. The Ivorian playwright
Werewere Liking
Werewere Liking (born 1950, in Cameroon) is a writer, playwright and performer based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She established the Ki-Yi Mbock theatre troupe in 1980 and founded the Ki-Yi village in 1985 for the artistic education of young pe ...
designed puppets for the film.
In 1996 Coulibaly started working on a feature-length animation project, ''Le Pouvoir de Ségou'', a project relaunched in 2009 as part of the ''Euromédiatoon'' project. Unfortunately long-term illness prevented the film's completion. Coulibaly died on 7 February 2015 at Kayes.
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Films
* ''La Geste de Ségou!'', 1989
References
External links
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1957 births
2015 deaths
Malian film directors
Animated film directors
People from Kayes
21st-century Malian people