Pascal Abikanlou

Pascal Adjibadé Abikanlou was born on 21 April 1935 in Pobè, near the Nigerian border, into a Nago-Yoruba royal lineage. A pupil at the Lycée Maurice-Delafosse in Dakar and an industrial draughtsman, he learned photography by correspondence, became a reporter and then a government cameraman shortly after independence and filmed the national newsreels, before directing, from 1967, documentaries on his country. He is regarded as the father of Beninese cinema. He died in Sèmè-Kpodji on 5 October 2009.

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• CinemaSous le signe du vaudouPascal Abikanlou · 1974Cinema