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Dani Kouyaté is an acclaimed film director, storyteller, musician, and griot. A descendant of the Mandinka griot tradition, he studied film in Ouagadougou and later earned...
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Katanga: Dance of The Scorpions (2024)
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Dani Kouyaté is an acclaimed film director, storyteller, musician, and griot. A descendant of the Mandinka griot tradition, he studied film in Ouagadougou and later earned advanced degrees in cinema and anthropology in Paris. His debut feature Keïta! l’Héritage du griot (1995) won the Best First Film Prize at FESPACO and the Junior Prize at Cannes. He has since directed powerful films like Sia, le rêve du python, Ouaga-Saga, and Katanga: The Dance of the Scorpions, which won the Golden Stallion at FESPACO 2025. Kouyaté also teaches film and theatre at Uppsala University in Sweden.
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Katanga: Dance of The Scorpions
Sep 23, 2024
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A prophecy leaves Katanga destined to seize the crown, or lose his life, in a tense saga of power, betrayal and fate. A drama re-imagines Macbeth in Africa.