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Mamadou Dia (18 July 1910 – 25 January 2009) [1] was a Senegalese politician who served as the first Prime Minister of Senegal from 1957 until 1962, when he was forced to resign and was subsequently imprisoned amidst allegations that he was planning to stage a military coup to overthrow President Léopold Sédar Senghor .
Mamadou Dia, né le 18 juillet 1910 à Khombole au Sénégal, mort le 25 janvier 2009 à Dakar 1, est un homme politique sénégalais. Président du Conseil de 1957 à 1962, il est l'un des principaux protagonistes de la crise politique de décembre 1962 qui l'oppose à Léopold Sédar Senghor .
Feb 18, 2024 · Berlin Hidden Gem: ‘Demba’ Is A Meditation on Grief and Redemption in Northern Senegal. His second feature after 2019’s Nafi’s Father, Senegalese director Mamadou Dia returns to his ...
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Mamadou Dia is a Senegalese director and director of photography based in New York where he completed his MFA at Tisch School of the Arts, (NYU) in 2017. Shaped by this training and his experience working as a video-journalist for over eight years across the African continent, his stories explore the fine balance between fiction and fact ...
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- Mamadou Dia
- Matam, Senegal
Mamadou received the Creative Capital Award in 2024. Mamadou was born and raised in Matam, Northern Senegal. He moved to the US for his MFA in writing and directing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Prior to that, he has worked as video-journalist based in Dakar for international agencies traveling in Africa and Europe.
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Feb 17, 2024 · A lonely widower wrestling with the loss of his wife finds himself in the thralls of a mental health crisis, setting the stage for a moving tale of grief and acceptance in Mamadou Dia’s “Demba ...
Mamadou Dia is a Senegalese film writer and director. A NYU Tisch graduate, he writes and directs films based on his life growing up in West Africa, exploring the tension between fact and fiction, realism and abstraction. His first feature, BAAMUM NAFI/NAFI’S FATHER (2019), was awarded a dozen of prizes, including two Golden Leopards for ...
