:Aï Keïta
{{Short description|Burkinabe actress}}
Aï Keïta Yara is a Burkinabé actress{{cite web |last=Coulidiati |first=Patrick |date=10 September 2011 |title=Cinéma :Aï Keita / Yara : Comédienne |url=https://www.artistesbf.org/ai-keita-yara-comedienne/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104092517/https://www.artistesbf.org/ai-keita-yara-comedienne/ |archive-date=4 January 2023 |access-date=4 January 2023 |website=ArtistesBF |language=fr-FR}}{{cite news |date=7 March 2020 |title=6e édition des JCFA : Aï Keïta Yara entre joie et déception |trans-title=6th edition of the JCFA: Aï Keïta Yara between joy and disappointment |url=https://burkina24.com/2020/03/07/6e-edition-des-jcfa-ai-keita-yara-entre-joie-et-deception/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230105092801/https://burkina24.com/2020/03/07/6e-edition-des-jcfa-ai-keita-yara-entre-joie-et-deception/ |archive-date=5 January 2023 |access-date=5 January 2023 |work=Burkina24.com |language=fr-FR}} who played the lead role in the 1986 film Sarraounia.
Career
Her first movie was Sarraounia (1986), where she played Sarraounia, the queen the movie is named after.{{Cite book |last=Ellerson |first=Beti |url=https://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Keita.html |title=Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film Video and Television |publisher=Africa World Press |year=2000 |isbn=9780865437135 |location=Trenton, New Jersey |language=en |oclc=39868214 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102195009/https://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Keita.html |archive-date=2 January 2023 |url-status=dead}} Sarraounia won several awards,{{Cite journal |last1=Hondo |first1=Med |author-link=Med Hondo |last2=Pfaff |first2=Françoise |date=26 April 1997 |title=Sarraounia: An Epic of Resistance |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/mata/19/1/article-p151_13.xml |journal=Matatu |language=en |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=151–158 |doi=10.1163/18757421-90000262 |issn=1875-7421 |url-access=subscription |via=Brill}} after which she was able to act in more movies and television shows, including the 2004 comedy-drama Tasuma.{{Cite web |last=Quist-Arcton |first=Ofeibea |date=26 February 2001 |title=Africa: Ai Keita Yara - From Queen to Soothsayer, From Celluloid to Video |url=https://allafrica.com/stories/200102260050.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102195008/https://allafrica.com/stories/200102260050.html |archive-date=2 January 2023 |access-date=21 April 2021 |website=allAfrica |language=en}} She has appeared in about 30 films including the 1995 film Haramuya{{Cite book |last=McCluskey |first=Audrey Thomas |author-link=Audrey Thomas McCluskey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z5qmplifVDIC&q=A%C3%AF%20Ke%C3%AFta |title=Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004 |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2007 |isbn=9780253348296 |pages=323 |language=en |oclc=70630517 |access-date=29 October 2024 |via=Google Books}} and the 2018 film The Three Lascars (French: Les trois lascars).{{cite book |url=https://www.africajarc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/DP-LES-3-LASCARS-V10.pdf |title=Les trois lascars |publisher=FESPACO |year=2021 |pages=8 |language=fr |trans-title=The Three Rascals |chapter=Casting |access-date=4 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104094824/https://www.africajarc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/DP-LES-3-LASCARS-V10.pdf |archive-date=4 January 2023 |url-status=dead}}
As of 2011, she was working as a civil servant processing medical records at Yalgado National Hospital Center in Ouagadougou.
Personal life
Keïta is married with two children, and speaks Fula, Dyula, Mooré, Zarma and French.
Her maternal grandfather was born in Senegal, before travelling to Burkina Faso with his first wife. When he arrived in Burkina Faso he married a woman from the village of Mardaga in Tapoa Province who later became Keïta's maternal grandmother.
References
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External links
- {{imdbname|0450950}}
- [http://africultures.com/personnes/?no=6238 Aï Keïta Yara on Africultures] (in French)
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Category:Burkinabé film actors
Category:People from Ouagadougou
Category:Hospital administrators
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)