Mamadou Djim Kola

Mamadou Djim Kola was born on 27 January 1940 in Dapoya, a district of Ouagadougou, in a family where the father owned a projector and showed films to the neighbours. A schoolteacher trained at the teacher training college of Ouahigouya, he took cinema correspondence courses from 1961, despite social pressure that held schoolteachers to be more useful to the country than filmmakers, then trained in Paris. He chaired his country's national association of directors from 1980 to 1987 and died on 11 December 2004 in Ouagadougou.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaBlood of the PariahsLe Sang des pariasMamadou Djim Kola · 1973Cinema