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Safi Faye

Senegalese film director and ethnologist
Safi Faye was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat, which was released in 1975. She has directed several documentary and fiction... Wikipedia
Born: November 22, 1943, Dakar, Senegal
Died: February 22, 2023 (age 79 years), Paris, France
Notable work: Kaddu Beykat, Mossane