SUR LES TRACES DE MAMANI ABDOULAYE

Credits

Name: SUR LES TRACES DE MAMANI ABDOULAYE

Country: Niger/Burkina Faso/Frankreich

Year of publication: 2019

Format: DCP

Language : OF m. engl. UT

Duration: 63 min Minuten

Series: 18. Afrikafilmfestival

Direction: Abdoulaye, Amina Mamani

Abstract

Abdoulaye Mamani was an activist, trade unionist, journalist and writer, and was one of the most significant personalities of the pan-African independence movement. Throughout his life, he campaigned for freedom and self-determination for his country, Niger. As a critical intellectual, he was banished from the official historiography of Niger, but his works remained in collective memory, especially his historical novel SARRAOUNIA, which was adapted for screen by Mauritanian director Med Hondo and can also be viewed at this year’s festival (see p. .....).
Twenty-six years after the politician’s death, his daughter, filmmaker Amina Abdoulaye Mamani, returns to Niger to document her father’s life, and with it the story of a whole country, through archive footage, contemporary witness accounts and interviews with his friends and associates.

In cooperation with Jutta Vogel Stiftung and Katholisches Bildungswerk Köln