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Filmmaker · Niger

Mamane Bakabé

Mahamane Bakabé was born on 26 June 1947 in Gazaoua. A schoolteacher by training, he produced educational animated films for the country's school television from 1970 to 1973, then took training in France as a director and producer at the Institut national de l'audiovisuel, completed in 1975. Assigned to the cinema section of national television, he was its head of production from 1979 to 1982, then head of programmes. President of the Nigerien filmmakers' association in 1980, he received in 1987 an American public television prize for a medium-length fiction film.

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