Ababacar Samb-Makharam

Ababacar Samb Makharam was born on 21 October 1934 in Dakar. After a naval school, he lived for nearly ten years in France, attended the drama classes of the rue Blanche and founded in Paris, with African and Caribbean artists, a troupe called Les Griots, then studied cinema at the Centro sperimentale in Rome. Back in his country in 1964, he worked for radio and the newsreels, founded his production company and was the first secretary general of the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers. He died in Dakar on 7 October 1987.

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• Feature filmJomAbabacar Samb-Makharam · 1981Cinema