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| name = Keïta! l'Héritage du griot
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| image = Keita!.jpg
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| director = [[Dani Kouyaté]]
| director = [[Dani Kouyaté]]
| producer = [[Sahelis Productions]]
| producer = [[Sahelis Productions]]
| writer = [[Dani Kouyaté]]
| writer = Dani Kouyaté
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| starring = [[Sotigui Kouyaté]]
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| released = 1995
| released = {{Film date|1995}}
| runtime = 94 minutes
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| country = Burkina Faso
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'''''Keïta! l'Héritage du griot''''' (English title: ''Keita! Voice of the Griot'') is a [[1995 in film|1995]] [[Cinema of Burkina Faso|Burkinabé]] film directed by [[Dani Kouyaté]] and starring [[Sotigui Kouyaté]]. It is an adaptation of the first third of the 13th-century ''[[Epic of Sundiata]]'', interspersed with scenes of a [[griot]] telling the story to a young child.<ref name="Gugler38">{{Harvnb|Gugler|2003|p=38}}</ref>
'''{{Lang|fr|Keïta! l'Héritage du griot}}''' (English title: ''Keita! Voice of the Griot'') is a [[1995 in film|1995]] [[Cinema of Burkina Faso|Burkinabé]] film directed by [[Dani Kouyaté]] and starring [[Sotigui Kouyaté]]. It is an adaptation of the first third of the 13th-century ''[[Epic of Sundiata]]'', interspersed with scenes of a [[griot]] telling the story to a young child.<ref name="Gugler38">{{Harvnb|Gugler|2003|p=38}}</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==
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''Keïta'' follows Mabo Keïta (Dicko), a thirteen-year-old boy who lives in a middle-class family in [[Ouagadougou]] and attends a good school. One day he encounters Djeliba Kouyate (Kouyaté), an elderly [[griot]], who wants to tell the young Keïta the origin of his name, being related to [[Sundjata Keita]] (Boro).
'' Keïta'' follows Mabo Keïta (Dicko), A 13-year-old boy who lives in a bourgeois family in [[Ouagadougou]] and attends a good school. He meets Djeliba Kouyate a griot who wants to tell the young Keita the origin of his name being related to Sundjata Keita. Kouyate begins his history with the myth of Mandeng creation As all living beings gather on the newly formed Earth a person declares to the masses that he wants to be their king. The old griot tells how Keita’s family descended from the buffalo, the blackbirds still look at him, and how people have roots that lie at the bottom of the earth.<ref>https://skysaki.com/best-burkina-faso-movies-list/</ref>

Kouyate begins his story with the [[Mandinka language|Mandeng]] [[creation myth]]: As all living beings come together in the newly formed Earth, one man proclaims to the masses that he wants to be their king. They respond, "We do not hate you." The old griot goes on to tell how Keita's family are descended from buffalo, the blackbirds are always watching him, and how people have roots that are deep in the earth.

The film shows realistic-looking flashbacks to ancient times and ends with Sundjata Keita being exiled from the Kingdom of Mande, to which he lays claim.


==Cast==
==Cast==
*[[Seydou Boro]]: [[Sundjata Keita]]
*[[Seydou Boro]] as [[Sundjata Keita]]
*[[Hamed Dicko]]: Mabo Keïta
*[[Hamed Dicko]] as Mabo Keïta
*[[Abdoulaye Komboudri]]: Drissa Fafana
*[[Abdoulaye Komboudri]] as Drissa Fafana
*[[Sotigui Kouyaté]]: Djeliba Kouyate
*[[Sotigui Kouyaté]] as Djeliba Kouyate; Sotigui Kouyaté is the father of the director of the film, Dani Kouyaté
*[[Claire Sanon]]: Sitan
*[[Claire Sanon]] as Sitan
*[[Blandine Yaméogo]]: Sogolon
*[[Blandine Yaméogo]] as Sogolon


==Production==
==Production==
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{{Epic of Sundiata}}
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Revision as of 22:55, 6 May 2024

Keïta! l'Héritage du griot
Directed byDani Kouyaté
Written byDani Kouyaté
Produced bySahelis Productions
StarringSotigui Kouyaté
Release date
  • 1995 (1995)
Running time
94 minutes
LandBurkina Faso
SpracheFrench

Keïta! l'Héritage du griot (English title: Keita! Voice of the Griot) is a 1995 Burkinabé film directed by Dani Kouyaté and starring Sotigui Kouyaté. It is an adaptation of the first third of the 13th-century Epic of Sundiata, interspersed with scenes of a griot telling the story to a young child.[1]

Plot

Keïta follows Mabo Keïta (Dicko), A 13-year-old boy who lives in a bourgeois family in Ouagadougou and attends a good school. He meets Djeliba Kouyate a griot who wants to tell the young Keita the origin of his name being related to Sundjata Keita. Kouyate begins his history with the myth of Mandeng creation As all living beings gather on the newly formed Earth a person declares to the masses that he wants to be their king. The old griot tells how Keita’s family descended from the buffalo, the blackbirds still look at him, and how people have roots that lie at the bottom of the earth.[2]

Cast

Production

Dani Kouyaté directed a number of short films before the release of Keïta, his first full-length feature.[1] The film's working title was Keita: From Mouth to Ear.[3] It was shot in the towns of Ouagadougou, Sindou, and Ouahabou.[1] The assistant director was Alidou Badini.[4]

Reception

Keïta! received the Best First Film Prize from the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Fespaco) and was awarded the Junior Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.[1] The New York Times praised the film, claiming it "succeeds admirably in keeping... history alive."[5] In a 1995 interview, Kouyate reflected on the experience and commenting on traditional society, saying:

Sometimes when you don't know where you're heading, you have to return to where you came from in order to think things over before continuing your journey. Today, with all the things happening to her, Africa has trouble finding which direction to take—modernity, tradition, or some other road. We are not really capable of digesting all these things. We don't know who we are, and we don't know where we are going. We are between two things. Between our traditions and our modernity.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Gugler 2003, p. 38
  2. ^ https://skysaki.com/best-burkina-faso-movies-list/
  3. ^ Gugler 2003, p. 36
  4. ^ "Alidou BADINI". Africutlures. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  5. ^ Maslin, Janet (1996-04-12), "Movie Review: Keita! The Voice of the Griot (1995)", The New York Times, retrieved 2008-08-28
  6. ^ Baaz & Palmberg 2001, p. 99

References

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