Directing
Mahama Traoré
Born — Died
1942-01-01 — 2010-03-08
Place of birth
Dakar, Senegal
Known for
Directing
Credits
8 titles
Senegalese filmmaker.
Known for
NRFollowing a misunderstanding, a traveler is mistaken for an important official on an inspection tour. Nothing will be spared to coax him into turning a blind eye to the prevarications: embezzlement, exactions of all kinds practiced by the local notables.
Lambaaye
1972
Tells the story of an official that misappropriates public funds to seduce a courtesan.
Diegue-Bi
1970
7.0This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small talibé, student of a beggar.
N'Diangane
1975
7.0Arguably the first African film made that engages the topic of slavery. African film pioneer Mahama Traore (more commonly referred to as Johnson), offers an uncompromising narrative that seeks to address totality of the African slave narrative.
Reou-Takh
1972
A film made in Cameroon and France about the life and work of filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty, with testimonials from filmmakers Abderrahmane Sissako, Newton Aduaka and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Cheick Fantamady Camara, Mahama Johnson Traoré; critics Catherine Ruelle, Thierno I. Dia and Brice Ahounou; Cameroonian actor Gérard Essomba; Mambéty's brother, Wasis Diop; and his son, Teemour Diop Mambéty.
Mambéty For Ever
2008
The drought forces a peasant couple to go to the city, where they meet people's indifference. Only a trade unionist will offer them any help.
Garga M'Bossé
1974
Film credits
Behind the camera
NRFollowing a misunderstanding, a traveler is mistaken for an important official on an inspection tour. Nothing will be spared to coax him into turning a blind eye to the prevarications: embezzlement, exactions of all kinds practiced by the local notables.
Lambaaye
1972
NRFollowing a misunderstanding, a traveler is mistaken for an important official on an inspection tour. Nothing will be spared to coax him into turning a blind eye to the prevarications: embezzlement, exactions of all kinds practiced by the local notables.
Lambaaye
1972
Tells the story of an official that misappropriates public funds to seduce a courtesan.
Diegue-Bi
1970
7.0This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small talibé, student of a beggar.
N'Diangane
1975
7.0Arguably the first African film made that engages the topic of slavery. African film pioneer Mahama Traore (more commonly referred to as Johnson), offers an uncompromising narrative that seeks to address totality of the African slave narrative.
Reou-Takh
1972
The drought forces a peasant couple to go to the city, where they meet people's indifference. Only a trade unionist will offer them any help.
Garga M'Bossé
1974
This film poses the problem of the emancipation of women in Senegal through the intersecting story of three young girls from the same family. Raised differently, they will not meet the same fate.
Diankha-Bi
1969
