Djingarey Maïga

Djingarey Abdoulaye Maïga was born on 17 October 1939 in Ouatagouna, a village in Mali two hundred and fifty kilometres from Niamey. He came to the Nigerien capital after school, where he read meters for the electricity company, and became interested in cinema in the early sixties. Moustapha Alassane gave him the lead role in his western in 1966, then others, and he left his job in 1971 to become his assistant. His first film, in 1972, had his eldest son, aged six, as its lead actor. Several of his films form a black series, linked by their subject matter.

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• CinemaL'Étoile noireDjingarey Maïga · 1975Cinema