Dani Kouyaté awarded the Yennenga
On Saturday 1 March 2025, Dani Kouyaté - filmmaker, storyteller, musician, and director - was awarded the Golden Stallion of Yennenga at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) for the film Katanga: the dance of the scorpions. The film is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the timeless and universal story of power, political intrigue, and ambition. KATANGA is rendered in black and white, and the actors speak Mooré, one of the dominant languages in Burkina Faso.
Dani Kouyaté has directed many films, including Sia: the dream of the Python (2001), Keita: The heritage of the griot (1995), and While we live (2016).
Dani Kouyaté is resident in Uppsala, and is teaching film and theatre at Wiks Folkhögskola. He is also a long-term partner of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, and is affiliated to Forum for Africa Studies. Dani Kouyaté is teaching on the course African Studies.
Folks, a screening of the awarded film Katanga is in the pipeline in April 2025. Stay tuned!
Back in Uppsala! Film Director Dani Kouyaté, and Forum for Africa Studies' Sten Hagberg with the Yennenga Gold Stallion awarding KATANGA as the best African Fiction Film in 2025. Photo: fastlife.se/
