La Princesse Yennega

(1986)

Genres: Animation

Year: 1986

Runtime: 12 мин

Country: Burkina Faso, France

Director: Claude Le Gallou, Blaise Patrix

Cast: Sotigui Kouyaté

Plot

Yennenga was a legendary princess and a famous warrior, considered to be the mother of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso who lived between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. The cut-out paper animation is an adaptation of a tale by Bila Kaboré.