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{{infobox person 
| name = Falaba Issa Traoré
| birth_place = [[Bougouni]], Mali
| birth_date = {{birth year|1930}}
| years active = 1930-2003
| occupation = Writer, theatre director, film director, playwright
| death_date ={{dda|2003|08|08|1930|||}}
}}
'''Falaba Issa Traoré''' (1930 – August 8, 2003) was a [[Mali]]an writer, [[comedian]], [[playwright]], and [[theatre director|theatre]] and [[film director]].

Born in [[Bougouni]], Traoré directed an amateur theater troupe before taking over direction of the regional troupe of [[Bamako]] between 1962 and 1968. From 1969 to 1973, he created and directed the Yankadi troupe for [[folklore]] and the dramatic arts.

In 1973, he traveled to Germany to study [[film|cinema]] direction. On returning to Mali in 1976, he directed the cinema division of the Ministry of Sports, Arts, and Culture.

As a comedian, Traoré played notable roles in the films of [[Kalifa Dienta]] (''A Banna''), of [[Cheick Oumar Sissoko]] (''Nidiougou Guimba''), and of [[Boubacar Sidibé]] (''le pacte social'', ''Sanoudié'', and ''N'Tronkélé''). He worked also as a director, making his first film, ''Juguifolo'' (''First Gleam of Hope''), in 1979, and his last, [[Bamunan]] (''The Sacred Pagne'') in 1990. Falaba Issa Traoré is the author of the [[opera]]s ''Soundiata ou l'épopée mandingue'' and ''Dah Monzon ou l'épopée Bambara''.

In 1972, Traoré won the prix Afrique de Poésie de la Francophonie. He died in [[Rabat]], [[Morocco]], on August 8, 2003.

==Filmography==
* 1979 ''Juguifolo'' (''First Gleam of Hope'')
* 1980 ''Anbé no don'' (''We Are All Guilty'')
* 1980 ''Kiri Kara Watita'' (''Duel on the Cliffs'')
* 1990 ''Bamunan'' (''The Sacred Pagne'').

==Bibliography==
* 1970 ''Contes et récits du terroir''

==External links==
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[[Category:1930 births]]
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[[Category:Malian dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Malian male writers]]
[[Category:Male dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Malian film directors]]
[[Category:People from Sikasso Region]]
[[Category:20th-century dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Malian male film actors]]
[[Category:20th-century Malian male actors]]
[[Category:20th-century male writers]]
[[Category:21st-century Malian people]]


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