Blaise Kilizou Abalo

Blaise Kilizou Abalo was born on 1 January 1947 in Kanianboua, in the prefecture of Sotouboua, and died on 16 October 2013. As a child, he discovered cinema through Indian films and the Kpèlèbé screenings and vowed to become a director. A schoolteacher turned filmmaker, he made a documentary in January 1977 on the ten years in power of President Eyadéma, taught audiovisual expression and studied at the African Institute of Cinematographic Education in Ouagadougou, from which he graduated with a licence. Married to a Burkinabè woman, he had five children.

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• CinemaKawilasiBlaise Kilizou Abalo · 1995Cinema