| LC control no. | no 97007784 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kouyaté, Dani |
| Associated country | Burkina Faso |
| Associated place | France United States Sweden |
| Birth date | 1961-06-04 |
| Place of birth | Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) |
| Field of activity | Mandingo (African people) Griots Ethnology Storytelling |
| Affiliation | Uppsala universitet |
| Profession or occupation | Motion picture producers and directors Griots Storytellers |
| Found in | Keïta! : l'héritage du griot, 1994: credits (Dani Kouyaté) De la Haute-Volta d'hier au Burkina Faso d'aujourd'hui, 2018: page 155 (Dani KOUYATE, Université d'Upsala; contribution: La dimension mandingue de la culture burkinabé) Wikipedia, August 7, 2018 (Dani Kouyaté; film director and griot; born June 4, 1961 in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso; Mandeng ethnicity; son of one of the first Burkinabé actors, Sotigui Kouyaté; trained at Institut Africain d'Education Cinématographique, Ouagadougou, then for 5 years in France at the Sorbonne, master's in cultural and social marketing; also received a degree from International School of Anthropology in Paris, and an advanced degree in cinema from Université de Vincennes à Saint-Denis; toured the United States and Europe 1990-1996 as part of "La Voix du Griot" (Voice of the Griot), a storytelling theater show founded by his father; began his film career in 1989) |
| Associated language | fre |
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