Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra was born on 30 January 1925 in Porto-Novo, in Dahomey. The first sub-Saharan African admitted to IDHEC, he graduated from it and in 1955, in Paris, co-directed one of the first works shot by Africans. From 1957 to 1980 he worked for the Senegalese Ministry of Information, directed the newsreels, produced films by Ousmane Sembène and wrote the first books on the history of African cinema. A doctor in 1982 under the supervision of Jean Rouch, he died in Paris on 4 November 1987.

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• Feature filmUnder House ArrestEn résidence surveilléePaulin Soumanou Vieyra · 1981Cinema