Burkinabe actress Mouna Ndiaye was crowned Best Actress on Saturday, during the first edition of the Sotigui Night Awards, a festival held in Ouagadougou rewarding actors of the African and Diasporic cinema.
She received that distinction thanks to her role in the movie “The eye of the cyclone” by the movie director Sékou Traoré.
The Sotigui Award for the Best West African Actor and Best Young Actor returned respectively to the Ivorian Gohou Michel and Malian Amadou Bidi Ouane.
African actors such as Amadou Buru and Andre Bougouma also known as Uncle Brama Burkina Faso, Balamoussa Keita of Mali, Dieudonné Kabongo of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Marie Laure Zouzouo of Côte d’Ivoire, Damouré Zika of Niger, James Campbell and Ousmane Sembene of Senegal, received a Tribute Award.
“The Sotigui Night” pays tribute to the Burkinabe filmmaker and footballer Sotigui Kouyaté, one of the most famous contemporary African actors, who died in 2010 in Paris.
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