Moussa Bathily (also Moussa Yoro Bathily, born in 1946) is a Senegalese history teacher, journalist, film director and producer, screen writer, and novelist.
Biography
Born in Bakel, East Senegal, as the Soninke son of a provincial governor, Bathily studied at a French colonial school and at the Dakar Lycée Van Vollenhoven (later named Lamine-Guèye). Starting in 1968, he read history at the Cheikh Anta Diop University at Dakar and graduated on a thesis on
Blaise Diagne
Blaise Diagne (13 October 1872 – 11 May 1934) was a Senegalese and French political leader and mayor of Dakar. He was the first person of West African origin elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, and the first to hold a position in the Fr ...
, who was in 1914 the first West African member elected to the
French Chamber of Deputies
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.Pfaff, 1988 Bathily worked for three years as a history teacher in
Rufisque
Rufisque ( ar, روفيسك; Wolof: Tëngeéj) is a city in the Dakar region of western Senegal, at the base of the Cap-Vert Peninsula. It has a population of 179,797 (2002 census). In the past it was an important port city in its own right, but ...
, West Senegal, and wrote film reviews for the Dakar newspaper ''Le Soleil''. Returning to Dakar he met filmmakers such as Djibril Diop Mambety and
Mahama Johnson Traoré
Mahama Johnson Traoré (1942–2010) was a Senegalese film director, writer, and co-founder of the Ouagadougou-based Pan-African Cinema Festival (FESPACO).
Biography
Traoré was born in 1942 at Dakar.Institut Français du Sénégal and started directing realist short films and documentaries, and later
features
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Novels
Bathily published two novels in French:
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Filmography
Bathily's films include:
Bibliography
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External link
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