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Filmmaker · Nigeria

Ola Balogun

Ola Balogun was born on 1 August 1945 in Aba, into a Yoruba family. Educated at King's College, Lagos, he studied in Dakar from 1962 to 1963, in Caen until 1966, then at the Idhec, in Paris, until 1968. A press attaché, then an employee of his country's film service, then of the national museum and of a university, he began with documentary short films before a first feature in 1972. He made about ten films up to the mid-eighties, including a co-production with Brazil.

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