Harouna Coulibaly (Author)

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Harouna Coulibaly (born August 2, 1962 in Magaria ; also Harouna Koulibaly ) is a Nigerien author and film director .

Life

Harouna Coulibaly attended CEG V , a general secondary school in the capital Niamey , after attending school in his hometown Magaria . He then studied at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) in Niamey, where he specialized in taxes and state property. He then worked in the Nigerien tax authorities, where he became head of the public relations department. He was involved in the Syndicat National des Impôts et du Trésor (SNIT) trade union , first as General Secretary for Information and then as the first Deputy General Secretary of the SNIT.

Between 1986 and 1995, Coulibaly published a dozen short stories, numerous poems and plays, and commentary for magazines such as Sahel Dimanche , Haské, and Tribune du Peuple . He became president of the book club in the Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien Jean Rouch in 1989 and coordinator of the Association pour la Promotion de la Culture (APROCULT) in 1990. He also worked in a leading position for the pan-African youth organization Organization des Jeunesses Panafricanistes du Niger . In his 1995 play Le Devoir (Duty), Coulibaly dealt with corruption and tax offenses . With this work he placed himself in a tradition of satirical and socially critical theater in Niger, which was shaped by Boubou Hama and André Salifou .

In the mid-1990s, Harouna Coulibaly turned to filmmaking. His first work as a film director and screenwriter was Wadjibi in 1996, a film adaptation of his own play Le Devoir . He attended courses in film technology in Ouagadougou and Dakar and was elected President of the Association des Cinéastes Nigériens of the Nigerien filmmakers in 1999 . He worked several times in West African countries, for example in 2012 on the adaptation of his play Barira for the television series Awa, la consécration in Mali . In 2012 he shot L'étoile filante du cinéma nigérien, a documentary about the film director Oumarou Ganda, for Nigerian private television . The Nigerian actor Yazi Dogo played a leading role in his 2013 feature film Le droit chemin .

Filmography

  • 1996: Wadjibi
  • 2002: Les architectes du verbe
  • 2002: L'île de Gorée
  • 2007: Un rendez-vous humanitaire
  • 2007: Ziga
  • 2012: Awa, la consécration (TV series)
  • 2012: L'étoile filante du cinéma nigérien
  • 2013: Le droit chemin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harouna Coulibaly. In: Africultures. Retrieved March 27, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ Chaibou Dan Inna , Ousmane Tandina: Niger . Translated by Helen Heubi. In: Don Rubin, Ousmane Diakhaté, Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh (Eds.): The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theater: Africa . 2nd Edition. Routledge, London / New York 2001, ISBN 0-415-05931-3 , pp. 215-216 .
  3. ↑ a b c d M. S. Abandé Moctar: ​​`` Le droit chemin '': Le cinéaste Harouna Coulibaly s'insurge contre l'incivisme fiscal des africains. In: Niger Diaspora. September 27, 2013, accessed on March 26, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Coulibaly, Harouna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koulibaly, Harouna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien author and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Magaria