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Burkinabe actress

Aï Keïta Yara is a Burkinabé actress who played the lead role in the 1986 film Sarraounia.

Career

Her first movie was Sarraounia (1986), where she played Sarraounia, the queen the movie is named after. Sarraounia won several awards, after which she was able to act in more movies and television shows, including the 2004 comedy-drama Tasuma. She has appeared in about 30 films including the 1995 film Haramuya and the 2018 film The Three Lascars (French: Les trois lascars).

As of 2011, she was working as a civil servant processing medical records at Yalgado National Hospital Center in Ouagadougou.

Personal life

Keïta is married with two children, and speaks Fula, Dyula, Mooré, Zarma and French.

Her maternal grandfather was born in Senegal, before travelling to Burkina Faso with his first wife. When he arrived in Burkina Faso he married a woman from the village of Mardaga in Tapoa Province who later became Keïta's maternal grandmother.

References

  1. ^ Coulidiati, Patrick (10 September 2011). "Cinéma :Aï Keita / Yara : Comédienne". ArtistesBF (in French). Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  2. "6e édition des JCFA : Aï Keïta Yara entre joie et déception" [6th edition of the JCFA: Aï Keïta Yara between joy and disappointment]. Burkina24.com (in French). 7 March 2020. Archived from the original on 5 January 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  3. Ellerson, Beti (2000). Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film Video and Television. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. ISBN 9780865437135. OCLC 39868214. Archived from the original on 2 January 2023.
  4. Hondo, Med; Pfaff, Françoise (26 April 1997). "Sarraounia: An Epic of Resistance". Matatu. 19 (1): 151–158. doi:10.1163/18757421-90000262. ISSN 1875-7421 – via Brill.
  5. Quist-Arcton, Ofeibea (26 February 2001). "Africa: Ai Keita Yara - From Queen to Soothsayer, From Celluloid to Video". allAfrica. Archived from the original on 2 January 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  6. McCluskey, Audrey Thomas (2007). Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004. Indiana University Press. p. 323. ISBN 9780253348296. OCLC 70630517. Retrieved 29 October 2024 – via Google Books.
  7. "Casting". Les trois lascars [The Three Rascals] (PDF) (in French). FESPACO. 2021. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.

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Films directed by Med Hondo
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