Zara Mahamat Yacoub

Zara Mahamat Yacoub was born in 1961 in N'Djamena. She earned a degree in modern literature from the University of Chad and trained in audiovisual production at Bry-sur-Marne. She worked as a radio journalist, then became head of programming at Chadian television, for a long time the only woman at the station. In 2001 she founded her own production company and made documentaries and fiction films on childhood and the condition of women; as director of a private radio station, she was the first woman to launch an independent radio station in Chad.

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• CinemaDilemme au fémininZara Mahamat Yacoub · 1994Cinema