Idrissa ouedraogo biography definition

Burkinabe, African and world cinemas have lost one of their most singular voices. Idrissa Ouédraogo, the director of such cinematic gems as Yam Daabo (), Yaaba (), Tilaï (), Samba Traoré (), Le cri du coeur () and Kini & Adams (), died of a stroke in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on 18 February at the age of This tall, brilliant, sensitive, generous figure with his aristocratically nonchalant walk and notoriously uncombed hair was born in in the country that hosts FESPACO, Africa’s most prestigious film festival.

Ouédraogo was the enfant terrible of the Burkinabe cinema, which was effectively engendered by the creation of FESPACO in 

Already a rebellious figure in his youth, having been expelled from the University of Ouagadougou for co-leading a student strike action in the late s, Ouédraogo would go on to join the now defunct INAFEC film school, which trained many of the major names of Bur