Adama Drabo

Adama Drabo was born in 1948 in Bamako. A village schoolteacher for about ten years, he painted and wrote for the theatre. In 1979 he joined the Centre national de production cinématographique, where he assisted Cheick Oumar Sissoko on two films, of 1986 and 1989, and in 1988 directed a short film about a peasant woman's day. Other films followed until 2009. He died of cardiac arrest on 15 July 2009 in Algeria, during the Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers.

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• Feature filmFire!Ta DonaAdama Drabo · 1991Cinema