Person
Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa
From Wikipedia
Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa (born 1940) is a Cameroonian film director, playwright and writer. He produced Cameroon's first full-length feature film, Muna Moto, in 1975. Dikongué Pipa's films deal with the interrelationships between elements of traditional Cameroonian culture and the wider world.
Background
Dikongué Pipa completed his high school education in France. Later, between 1962 and 1964, he trained as a filmmaker at the Conservatoire Indépendent du Cinéma Francais.
Using raw film stock, he made 3 documentaries between 1965 and 1966 : Un Simple (Down to Earth), Rendez-vous moi mon père (Give me back my father) and Les Cornes (The Horns) - these were not screened publicly .
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