Great African Filmmakers
40 GREAT AFRICAN FILMMAKERS
Are you looking for some thought-provoking movies to watch over the rainy weekend?
We made a list of 40 influential African filmmakers, so why don’t you select one of their groundbreaking movies?
1- Ama Ata Aidoo
2- Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1954-2018, Burkina Faso
3- Gaston Kabore, 1951, Burkina Faso
Wend Kuuni, Buud Yam
4- Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 1961, Chad
5- Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1959, Zimbabwe
6- Sarah Maldoror, 1938, Guadeloupe
7- Lionel Ngakane, 1928-2003, South Africa
8- Kwaw Ansah, 1941, Ghana
9- Jean-Marie Teno, 1954, Cameroon
10- Fanta Regina Nacro, 1962, Burkina Faso
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11- Jihan El-Tahri, 1963, Egypt
12- Ousmane Sembene, 1923-2007, Senegal
13- Mweze Ngangura, 1950, DRC
14- Judy Kibinge, 1967, Kenya
15- Balufu Bakupa- Kanyinda, 1957, DRC
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16- Salem Mekuira, 1947, Ethiopia
17- Ramadan Suleman, 1955, South Africa
Zulu Love Letter, Fools, Rights of Passage
18- Djibril Diop Mambety, 1945-1998, Senegal
19- Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1925-1987, Benin
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20- Lebogang Rasethaba, 1983, South Africa
21- Yaba Badoe, 1955, Ghana
22- Mansour Sora Wade, 1952, Senegal
23- Wanjiru Kinyanjui, 1958, Kenya
24- Zeze Gamboa, 1955, Angola
25- Cheick Oumar Sissoko, 1945, Mali
26- Jim Chuchu, 1982, Kenya
27- Theresa Sita Bella, 1933-2006, Cameroon
28- Ekwa Msangi, 1983, Tanzania
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29- Apolline Traore, 1976, Burkina Faso
30- Safi Faye, 1943, Senegal
31- Ousmane Sembène
32- Issa Serge Coelo, 1967, Chad
33- Manthia Diawara, 1953, Mali
34- Moussa Sene Absa, 1958, Senegal
35- Zina Saro-Wiwa, 1976, Nigeria
36- Femi Odugbemi, 1963, Nigeria
37- Joseph Gai Ramaka, 1952, Senegal
38- Fadika Kramo Lancine, 1948, Ivory Coast
39- Jean Pierre Dikongue Pipa, 1940, Cameroon
40- Adama Drabo, 1948- 2009, Mali
Others include Dani Kouyate, 1961, Burkina Faso, Newton Aduaka, 1966, Nigeria and more…
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