Abdoua Kanta

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Abdoua Kanta (* 1946 in Foulatari ; † April 9, 2017 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien journalist , writer and film director .

Life

Abdoua Kanta belonged to the Fulbe ethnic group . He initially trained as a teacher before turning to the media sector. In 1965 he completed his television training in Paris .

Kanta worked for the Office de Radiodiffusion et Télévision du Niger (ORTN), the state broadcaster of Niger. He worked as a radio presenter in French and in the national languages Fulfulde and Kanuri . With Mariama Keïta and Akoli Daouel , he presented the children's program Magazine des petits . From 1978, Abdoua Kanta was responsible for the conception and implementation of Télé Sahel , the ORTN's first regular television program. He also acted as a presenter on television. From 1978 to 1980 he was a sports and culture reporter for the magazine program Nous les Jeunes and at the 1978 Africa Games in Algiers he worked as an ORTN special reporter. From 1973 he also worked for the international broadcasters Radio France Internationale , Radio Canada International and Deutsche Welle .

The children's book author Andrée Clair introduced him to writing children's literature in the early 1970s and later also helped him find publishers in Europe. His greatest success was the book Halimatou , published in 1987 , which is aimed at eleven to twelve year olds and whose German translation - under the title Lelee, the Shepherd Girl - was awarded the Children's Literature Prize Blauer Brillenschlange in 1995. The book was filmed under the title Lelée as a co-production by FR3 and Télé Sahel .

As a director, Abdoua Kanta has made several feature films and documentaries, including one on AIDS . As an actor, he appeared in several plays for the theater company of the Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien . Kanta was also a founding member of the Nigerien writers' association Association des Ecrivains Nigériens and the Nigerien filmmaker association Association des Cinéastes Nigériens . From 1992 to 1994 he was Secretary General of the Nigerien media regulator Conseil Supérieur de la Communication (CSC).

Abdoua Kanta died in Niamey National Hospital after a long illness . He was buried at Yantala Muslim Cemetery in Niamey.

Works

Books

  • Le déraciné . Unesco, Paris 1972.
  • Lelee, the shepherd girl . With pictures by Boubacar Boureima . 3. Edition. Nagel and Kimche, Zurich / Frauenfeld 1997, ISBN 978-3-312-00502-4 (French: Halimatou . Vauves 1987. Translated by Annelies Burckhardt and Anna Katharina Ulrich).
  • La gestion du matériel humain et technique d'une station de télévision . École nationale d'administration publique de Québec, Sainte-Foy 1990.

Movies

  • 1981: L'homme et les animaux
  • 1982: Le divorce
  • 1982: L'homme sans cicatrice
  • 1990: Lelée, l'ainée de la famille

literature

  • Jean-Dominique Pénel, Amadou Maïlélé: Littérature du Niger. Rencontre . Volume III: Mahamadou Halidou Sabbo, Diouldé Laya, André Salifou, Mamane Maïdo, Diado Amadou, Abdoua Kanta, Yacou Karanta, Mamane Sani, Salif Dago, Moussa Mahamadou, Kangaï Seyni Maïga. L'Harmattan, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-296-12860-6 , chap. Abdoua Kanta , S. 165-180 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Susanne Koppe: Ten rainy seasons old. In: Zeit Online. Retrieved September 5, 2019 (first published: Die Zeit , 15/1996).
  2. ↑ a b c Necrology: Abdoua Kanta n'est plus. In: Niger Diaspora. May 10, 2017, accessed September 5, 2019 (French).
  3. ↑ a b Omar Ali: Interview: M. Abdoua Kanta, réalisateur, écrivain auteur de '' Halimatou '' édité par Hachette en 1986 et adapté en 1989 à l'écran sous le titre '' Lelée ''. In: Niger Diaspora. April 9, 2018, accessed September 5, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ a b c Retrospectives du cinéma nigérien: Abdoua Kanta. In: PlaneteAfrique. September 5, 2008, accessed September 5, 2019 (French).
  5. ↑ Martine Docekal: La littérature enfantine . In: Marie-Clotilde Jacquey (ed.): Littérature nigérienne (=  Notre librairie . No. 107 ). CLEF, Paris 1991, p. 121 .
  6. ^ Saley Hamidou Ko: Cinéma et littérature . In: Marie-Clotilde Jacquey (ed.): Littérature nigérienne (=  Notre librairie . No. 107 ). CLEF, Paris 1991, p. 92 .
  7. ↑ Les cinémas d'Afrique: dictionnaire . Karthala, Paris 2000, ISBN 978-2-84586-060-5 , pp. 255-256 .
personal data
SURNAME Kanta, Abdoua
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien journalist, writer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Foulatari
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2017
Place of death Niamey