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Maybe it’s a messenger. The story of Akonio Dolo deserves a film, I assure you: it would tell how, a little shepherd born in the Dogon Country in Mali, he found himself projected at the age of 14 into a mansion in Paris, in the middle of the intelligentsia of the 60s.
We would continue the improbable fairy tale by narrating his encounter with the world of theater (from Jean-Marie Serreau to Antoine Vitez via Aimé Césaire, Kateb Yacine or Toto Bissainthe), he will have crossed and played the words of these great minds . And that, the Dogon ancestors had not seen it coming. Story of an uprooting that will have produced a double sensitivity and a real career. So we calm down, and we say it very gently, the life ofAkonio Dolo well deserved a book. With Reverence to baobabs, from the Dogon plateau to the international stage, written with the assistance of Geneviève Pons, here is what is done, and well done. By closing this biography, I now know that a Dogon never answers a question except with another question…
Akonio Dolo’s musical choices
Claude Nougaro Locomotive d’or
Aznavour VS Toto Bissainthe Are you letting yourself go? Or age kow
Otis Redding Stand by me.