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- Oumarou Ganda (1935 – 1 January 1981) was a Nigerien director and actor who helped bring African cinema to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Oumarou Ganda (1935 – 1 January 1981) was a Nigerien director and actor who helped bring African cinema to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Festival. Oumarou Ganda. Director. Biography. Niger. Ganda was born in Niamey, the capital of Niger, in 1935 and was of Djerma ethnicity. He completed his primary studies in Niamey and at the age of 16 joined the French Far East Expeditionary Corps as a soldier from 1951 to 1955.
Oumarou Ganda. Actor: L'éxilé. Oumarou Ganda was born in 1935 in Niamey, Niger. He was an actor and director, known for L'éxilé (1980), Le wazzou polygame (1971) and Cabascabo (1969). He died on 1 January 1981 in Niamey, Niger.
- Actor, Director, Writer
- January 1, 1981
- Oumarou Ganda
The words spoken by Oumarou Ganda in his role as Edward G. Robinson are especially moving as he fantasises about himself alternately as the world champion boxer Sugar Ray Robinson and husband of the woman who calls herself Dorothy Lamour.
Oumarou Ganda, Niger. Oumarou Ganda was born in Niamey, of Djerma ethnicity. At the age of 16, he joined the French Far East Expeditionary Corps. After spending two years in Asia during the First Indochina War he returned to Niger.
Oumarou Ganda (1935 – 1 January 1981) was a Nigerien director and actor who helped bring African cinema to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s. Ganda was born in Niamey, the capital of Niger, in 1935 and was of Djerma ethnicity.
His most famous, Le Wazzou Polygame (1970) won the first FESPACO Film Festival Best Film Award. In addition to his dramatic films, Ganda completed several documentaries and was working on one at the time of his death of a heart attack on January 1, 1981.