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Adjaratou Lompo

Burkinabe filmmaker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ124606648 ↗
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Adjaratou Lompo (born 1960) is a filmmaker from Burkina Faso.

Biography

Adjaratou Lompo was born in 1960. She attended the Institut National de Formation Artistique et Culturelle (INAFEC). She is employed by Radio Télévision du Burkina.

Her film Si je savais (2001) depicts a female student educating her village about the dangers of female genital mutilation. Her La Cour des Veuves (2005) depicts the problems encountered by widows. Les Amazones du cinéma africain (2015) is her documentary about women in the film industry.

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This entry incorporates text from “Adjaratou Lompo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.