Burkina's contribution to African cinema started with the establishment of the film festival FESPACO (Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou)...

Idrissa Ouédraogo (21 January 1954 – 18 February 2018) was a Burkinabé filmmaker. His work often explored the conflict between rural and city life and...

Burkinabe cuisine, the cuisine of Burkina Faso, is similar to the cuisines in many parts of West Africa, and is based on staple foods of sorghum, millet...

Burkinabè Rising (also Burkinabé Rising): the art of resistance in Burkina Faso is a 2018 long documentary film directed and produced by Iara Lee. The...

Burkinabé literature grew out of oral tradition, which remains important. In 1934, during French occupation, Dim-Dolobsom Ouedraogo published his Maximes...

Cinema of Burkina Faso List of Burkinabé films Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou v t e...

The culture of Burkina Faso in West Africa is also called the Burkinabé culture. Two key elements of culture in Burkina Faso (a country once known as...

Burkinabé and Malian governments as Sankara called for a revolution in Mali while Traoré's regime struggled to manage social unrest. After Burkinabé officials...

Gaston Kaboré (born 1951) is a Burkinabé film director and an important figure in Burkina Faso's film industry. He has won awards for his films Wend Kuuni...

military personnel accused of plotting a coup in collaboration with the Burkinabe external opposition. Burkina Faso adopted a new constitution on June 2...

Mamounata Nikiéma (1979—) is a Burkinabé producer and director. She was trained at the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis, Senegal. She was General...

Yaaba is a 1989 Burkinabé drama film written, produced, and directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo, "one of the best known films from francophone sub-Saharan Africa"...

"father's house"). The "-bé" suffix added onto "Burkina" to form the demonym "Burkinabé" comes from the Fula language and means "women or men". The CIA summarizes...

Konkobo (15 September 2023). "Cinéma : le film « Sira » de Apolline Traoré représentera le Burkina Faso aux Oscars" [Cinema: the film “Sira” by Apolline...

to Kouyate and Sacko's Visa issues. Replacement players were found in Burkinabé Balafonist Mamadou Koita and Senegalese Kora player Sadio Sissoko, and...

actress May 13 – Samantha Morton, English actress May 14 – Jacky Ido, Burkinabé-born French actor May 15 – Ben Whitehead, English actor, voice artist...

Panorama Audience Award for Best Feature Film. It was selected as the Burkinabé entry in the Best International Feature Film category for the 96th Academy...

Kollo Daniel Sanou (born 1 December 1951) is a Burkinabé film director as well as a screenwriter and producer of both fiction and documentary films. Sanou...

discussions took place of a possible unification of Burkinabé Communist Group (GCB), the Union of Burkinabè Communists (UCB) and ULC-R, OMR was mentioned as...

Watamou Lamien was a Burkinabé politician and journalist. He had a leading role at the Voltan National Radio in the years leading up to the 4 August 1983...

nominated for the grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema - Dramatic category. It won prizes at Tarifa 2007, Amiens 2006 and Namur...

Apolline Traoré (born 1976) is a Burkinabé director, screenwriter, and producer. She is known for films that include Sous la clarté de la lune, Borders...

instead tomato paste. In French-speaking West Africa, including Beninese, Burkinabé, Guinean, Guinea-Bissauan, Ivorian, Nigerien, and Togolese cuisines, there...

African cinema professionals including: Pedro Pimenta - Mozambican producer Lina Chabanne - Tunisian producer Guy Désiré Yaméogo - Burkinabé producer...

Adama Abdoulaye Touré (1936 – 26 October 2012) was a Burkinabé politician. Touré was a radical student activist and became a leading member of the communist...

Sarah Bouyain (born 1968) is a French-Burkinabé writer and film director. Her first full-length film, The Place in Between, was released in 2010. Bouyain...

the pull of cinema and enrolled in a correspondence course with the Independent Center of French Cinema (Conservatoire Indépendant du Cinéma Français, CICF)...

Soumane Touré (14 March 1948 – 25 March 2021) was a Burkinabé politician and trade unionist. He was a prominent student activist during his youth and...

was born in 1961 in Bobo-Dioulasso. He is the son of one of the first Burkinabé actors, Sotigui Kouyaté, and is a member of the Mandinka ethnic group...

Issa le Tisserand (in English: Issa the weaver) is a 1985 Burkinabé film directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo. The film was awarded as the best documentary at...