Claim: Balla Moussa Keïta born 1934 was a Malian actor managed to obtain a job with the National Theater, his first radio broadcast for Malian radio but never worked on art after that.
Evidence: Balla Moussa Keïta (1934 – March 6, 2001) was a Malian actor and comedian, and a West African cinema pioneer who was well known in the West (especially France). In 1960, he managed to obtain a job with the National Theater (then under the Haut Commissariat à la jeunesse - the High Commission for Youth). Under the auspices of the Commissariat, Keïta recorded his first radio broadcast for Malian radio in 1967. Keïta thus became a well-known voice on the radio, and was popularly known as "Balla Moussa".