Moussa Bathily (also Moussa Yoro Bathily, born in 1946) is a Senegalese history teacher, journalist, film director and producer, screen writer, and novelist. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Biography

Born in Bakel, East Senegal, as the Soninke son of a provincial governor, Bathily studied at a French colonial school and at the Dakar Lycée Van Vollenhoven (later named Lamine-Guèye). Starting in 1968, he read history at the Cheikh Anta Diop University at Dakar and graduated on a thesis on Blaise Diagne, who was in 1914 the first West African member elected to the French Chamber of Deputies. ^[6] Bathily worked for three years as a history teacher in Rufisque, West Senegal, and wrote film reviews for the Dakar newspaper Le Soleil. Returning to Dakar he met filmmakers such as Djibril Diop Mambety and Mahama Johnson Traoré at the forerunner of the later Institut Français du Sénégal and started directing realist short films and documentaries, and later features.

Novels

Bathily published two novels in French:

• Bathily, Moussa (1998). L'avenue des sables : roman [The sandy avenue] (in French). Châtenay-Malabry, France: Acoria: ACCT (Agence de coopération culturelle et technique), UNESCO. ISBN  9782912525208. OCLC  41269110.
• Bathily, Moussa (2021). Blaise Diagne : l'honorable député : roman [Blaise Diagne: the respectable delegate] (in French). Dakar, Senegal: L'Harmattan Sénégal. ISBN  9782343220741. OCLC  1259366220.

Filmography

Bathily's films include: ^{[1] [2] [4] [5]}

Bibliography

• Ames, Roy (2008). Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 40. ISBN  978-0253351166. OCLC  177009058.
• Pfaff, Françoise (1988). Twenty-five Black African filmmakers : a critical study, with filmography and bio-bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN  9780313246951. OCLC  16088399.

External link

• Ceddo (1977), with English and French Subtitles (**enable Closed Caption for English subtitles**) on YouTube. Video duration 1h:51m:41s. Uploader XMusicMusicX 2013.

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