N'Diagne Adechoubou explained

N'Diagne Adechoubou
Birth Date:	7 November 1959
Nationality:	Beninese
Citizenship:	Beninese
Occupation:	Film Director and Producer

N'Diagne Adechoubou (born 1959) is a Beninese film director and producer.^[1]

Life

N'Diagne Adechoubou was born on 7 November 1959. He is manager of Akangbe Productions, established in 1992.^[2]

In the 1980s Adechoubou travelled to Cuba to film a documentary about the Afro-Cuban painter Manuel Mendive, tracing the elements of Yoruba culture which had travelled to Cuba with African slaves.^[3] His documentary on the Autonomous Port of Cotonou, produced in France in the early 1990s,^[4] emphasised the port's dynamism.^[1]

Adechoubou has worked as producer and cinematographer on several films directed by the Congolese filmmaker Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda. He was producer for Afro@Digital, a documentary exploring how digital technologies are being used in Africa.^[5]

Filmography

As director

• Le Pont-Neuf en scene. Documentary.
• Psychose d’amour et de guerre [Psychosis of love and war]. Documentary.
• Manuel Mendive ou l'esprit pictural yoruba [Manuel Mendive or the Yoruba pictorial spirit]. Short documentary, 1987.
• Port Autonome de Cotonou [Autonomous Port of Cotonou]. Medium-length documentary, 1993.
• Zinsou, le grand témoin [Zinsou, the great witness]. Feature-length documentary, 2013.

As producer

• Watt. Short film directed by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, 1999.
• Article 15 bis. Short film directed by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, 2000.
• Afro@Digital. Medium-length documentary directed by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, 2002.
• Juju Factory. Feature-length film directed by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, 2005.

External links

• • Ndiagne Adechoubou at africultures

Notes and References

1. Book: FESPACO. Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou. L'Association des Trois Mondes. Les cinémas d'Afrique: dictionnaire. 2000. KARTHALA Editions. 978-2-84586-060-5. 21. Adechoubou, N'Diagne.
2. https://dirigeants.bfmtv.com/N-diagne-ADECHOUBOU-3542869/ N'diagne ADECHOUBOU
3. Book: Françoise Pfaff. Focus on African Films. 2004. Indiana University Press. 0-253-21668-0. 261–.
4. Book: Mathurin C. Houngnikpo. Samuel Decalo. Historical Dictionary of Benin. 2013. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-8108-7171-7. 165.
5. Book: Blandine Stefanson. Sheila Petty. Directory of World Cinema Africa: Directory of World Cinema Africa. 39. 2014. Intellect Books. 978-1-78320-391-8. 93–4.