Alichina Allakaye

Marie-Françoise — 2023-07-29T17:26:06Z

Alichina Allakaye Alichina Allakaye (in the center in the photo above, taken during the Bagagi Parade in 2021) is co-founder of the theater company Les Tréteaux du Niger and the plastic art collective Gamouart. He is a complete artist: painter, draftsman, actor, director, he followed several training courses: from 1982 to 1985, training in drawing and painting at the Oumarou Ganda Cultural Center (CCOG) in Niamey in Niger under the aegis of the peace corps. He returned to this same institution as a trainer in drawing and painting from 1986 to 1993. From 1994 to 1997, he trained at the CCFN Jean Rouch in Niamey with famous French actors, directors and directors. Today he has become a key player in the cultural scene of Niger, thanks to his passion for art and culture, but also and above all to his passage in 1982, in the workshops of master Rissa Ixa (Nigerian painter), at the ceramic workshop of Seydou Moumouni Maïga in Niamey, in 1993. Alichina Allakaye has exhibited her works in Africa, Europe and the USA. He participated in several residences of artistic creations: Toulouse (Saint Henri), Creil, Avignon (France), Tahoua, Zinder, Agadez, Niamey and in Youri (Niger), collaborated and acted in several plays and films.

Alichina was one of the organizers of the Bagagi Parade at the end of August 2021 (see our Magazine number 15). He is one of the authors of the film sketches “Akwai Magana! Let us talk about it.”

Yazi Dogo and the nigérien folk theater

Marie-Françoise — 2011-10-04T09:46:35Z

The Yazi Dogo Youth and Culture club is located in Dogon Doutchi. Very few activities are currently offered, owing to a lack of means. Tarbiyya Tatali intends to develop a cultural resource center on the Arewa. One step in implementing the project consists in collecting information to better know Yazi Dogo.

Who is Yazi Dogo ?

A teacher by trade, who is better known and appreciated by Nigeriens as a theatre man: actor, playwright, director. He has written some thirty plays and a hundred or so sketches. Those have been shown on Nigerien Television since it started in 1978.
His work is staged in French and in Haoussa, his mother tongue.
Born circa 1942 in Maizani, in the Dogon Doutchi department, he has now retired.
He still directs the Yazi Dogo Company.
He finds his inspiration in historical tradition (for instance the legend of the wicked king Kabrin Kabra who wanted to kill all the old people), in current affairs (such as the struggle against bribery) and in comic and farcical situations, for in Haoussa society people love to have a good laugh. He also contributes to raise awareness of women's condition ( girls' schooling, early or forced marriages, spacing out births, malnutrition) and also of AIDS, polio…

For more information see his CV below.

Further information about Yazi Dogo.

There have been several studies devoted to the works or Yazi Dogo, among them an interview and a video film to which members of our association contributed.

Jean-Dominique Penel's interview of Yazi Dogo.

Made on October 22^nd 1989 and published in the first volume of Rencontre, Nigerien Literature, Editions du Ténéré, published by J-D Penel and A. Maïlele.

The video film by Joanna Cussigh

Yazi Dogo par PromoChabrol

A twenty-minute video entitled “Yazi Dogo and the Nigerien Folk Theatre”, made by Joanna during a solidarity stay in 2010.

Yazi Dogo