The Bamako Express takes more than 36 hours to connect Dakar to Bamako, about 1200 kilometers. During this crossing from West to East, multiple images of the African continent, legendary places ...

The cause of his death has not been specified. Cissé, who was born in the Malian capital of Bamako and studied film in Moscow, became the first Black African filmmaker to win a prize for a ...

By Claire Moses Souleymane Cissé, an award-winning writer and director who became the first Black African filmmaker to win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, died on Wednesday in Bamako ...

Cissé also twice won the Étalon d’or de Yennenga, the Grand Prize of the Ouagadougou Pan-African Film and Television Festival. Born in Bamako, Mali, Cissé studied in Mali, Senegal and Moscow.

His daughter, Mariam Cissé, confirmed his death at a clinic in the capital Bamako, expressing shock and mourning "the loss of a man who dedicated his life to film and art". The cause of his death ...

the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou. “Papa died today in Bamako. We are all in shock. He dedicated all his life to his country, to cinema and to art,” his daughter ...

Cissé is also a two-time winner of the Étalon d’or de Yennenga, the Grand Prize of the Ouagadougou Pan-African Film and Television Festival. Born in Bamako, Mali, Cissé studied in Mali ...