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Mahama Johnson Traor was a Senegalese film director, writer, and cofounder of the Ouagadougoubased PanAfrican Cinema Festival .

Traor was born in 1942 at Dakar. The son of a businessman, Traor studied in Senegal, Mali and France to be an electrical engineer. In Paris he quit his studies to follow a passion for film. There he enrolled in the Conservatoire libre du cinma franais, an avantgarde school inspired by current German and Italian cinema and the theoretical approaches of the French ORTF

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