Sotigui Kouyaté

**Sotigui Kouyaté** (19 ga Yulin 1936 - 17 ga Afrilu 2010)  ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin 'yan wasan kwaikwayo na farko na Burkinabé na Mali.  Shi ne mahaifin darektan fim Dani Kouyaté, na mai ba da labari Hassane Kassi Kouyaté da kuma ɗan wasan kwaikwayo Mabô Kouyaté  kuma memba ne na ƙabilar Mandinka. 

Mambobin zuriyar Kouyaté ko dangin sun yi aiki a matsayin griots ga Daular Keita tun aƙalla karni na 13. Kouyatés suna kula da al'adu, kuma iliminsu yana da iko tsakanin Mandinkas. Keitas dole ne ya samar da abubuwan more rayuwa ga Kouyatés, wanda shi ma bai kamata ya yi jinkirin neman taimakon Keita ba. Kalmar Kouyaté tana fassara a matsayin "akwai sirri tsakanin kai da ni".

## Tarihin rayuwa
Sotigui Kouyaté an haife ta ne a Mali ga iyayen Guinea kuma Burkinabé ne ta hanyar tallafi. Lokacin da yake yaro, yana jin daɗin wasan kwaikwayo na Koteba. Ya taba taka leda a kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Burkina Faso. Kouyaté ya fara aikin wasan kwaikwayo a shekarar 1966, lokacin da ya bayyana a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga sarki a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na tarihi wanda abokinsa Boubacar Dicko ya samar. A wannan shekarar, ya kafa kamfanin wasan kwaikwayo tare da mutane 25 kuma nan da nan ya rubuta wasan sa na farko, The Crocodile's Lament .

Kouyaté ya yi aiki tare da Peter Brook a kan ayyukan gidan wasan kwaikwayo da fina-finai tun lokacin da suka haɗu da juna yayin da suke aiki a kan karɓar Brook na tarihin Indiya The *Mahabharata* a 1983.  Kouyaté ya bayyana a cikin fina-finai sama da goma sha biyu, kwanan nan a matsayin Yakubu a cikin *Farawa* da Alioune a cikin Little Senegal .  Kouyaté ya taka muhimmiyar rawa na Djeliba Kouyaté a fim din Dani Kouyaté na 1995 *[[Keita! l'Héritage du griot (fim)|Keita!]]*! l'Héritage du griot, halin da dansa ke tunanin shi a matsayin tsoho mai mutuwa, kodayake an nuna shi a matsayin mai karfi fiye da haka. Tsohon Kouyaté kuma yana buga kayan kida, waƙoƙi masu sauƙi a kan kora ko sarewa.

Daga 1990 zuwa 1996 Kouyaté ya zagaya Amurka da Turai a matsayin wani ɓangare na La Voix du Griot ("Muryar Griot"), wasan kwaikwayo na wasan kwaikwayo da ya kafa. Lokacin da aka tambaye shi a wata hira da aka yi da shi a watan Oktoba na shekara ta 2001 ko ya ji yana dauke da sako daga Afirka, ya amsa:Afirka tana da fa'ida, kuma zai zama abin kunya a yi magana da sunanta.  Ina fada da kalmomi domin ni mai ba da labari ne, mai ban tsoro.  Daidai ne ko kuskure, suna kiran mu masanan magana.  Aikinmu shi ne mu karfafa wa kasashen Yamma gwiwa su kara yaba wa Afirka.  Hakanan gaskiya ne cewa yawancin 'yan Afirka ba su san ainihin nahiyarsu ba.  Kuma idan ka manta al'adar ka, ka rasa ganin kanka.  An ce "ranar da ba ku san inda za ku ba, ku tuna daga inda kuka fito."  Ƙarfinmu yana cikin al'adunmu.  Duk abin da nake yi a matsayin mai ba da labari, griot, ya samo asali ne daga wannan tushe da buɗe ido.
A shekara ta 2009, Kouyaté ya lashe Silver Bear a Berlinale Filmfestival don wasan kwaikwayonsa. Ya taka muhimmiyar rawa a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na Rachid Bouchareb na London River, game da fashewar bam na London na 2005. A ranar 17 ga Afrilu 2010, ya mutu a birnin Paris.

***Sotigui Kouyate:Griot na zamani***

Darakta: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Daga: Chadi / Faransa Shekara: 1996 Minti:58 Harshe: Faransanci tare da subtitles na Turanci Genre: Documentary

* Zaɓin hukuma, Bikin Fim na Diaspora na Afirka na 2007

Lokacin da yake jefa *Mahabharata*, mataimakin Peter Brook ya bincika cikin ɗakunan fina-finai don neman ɗan wasan kwaikwayo don ɗaukar ɗayan manyan matsayi, Bhishma mai hikima. "Na ga harbi daya na itace da mutum mai tsayi da tsayi kamar wannan itace, tare da kasancewar ban mamaki da inganci. Sotigui ne, "in ji Brook a cikin wannan shirin game da ɗan wasan kwaikwayo. An haife shi a 1936 a Bamako (Mali), Kouyaté na cikin wani fitaccen dangin griots-masters na kalmomi waɗanda a lokaci guda sune masanan asali, masana tarihi, masanan bukukuwan, masu ba da shawara, matsakanci, mawaƙa da mawaƙa. Ya ba da duk waɗannan baiwa, a matsayin mawaƙi, mai rawa, ɗan wasan kwaikwayo da uba, ga 'ya'yansa da kuma taron "yara na ruhaniya" da suka warwatse a duk faɗin duniya, wanda yake jagora mai daraja. Ya cika kowane matsayi da mutunci mai zurfi, ya bayyana a wasu fina-finai 60, gami da Sia The Dream of the Python wanda ɗansa Dany Kouyate ya jagoranta da Names Live Nowhere inda ya bi baƙi na Afirka a Belgium kuma ya ba da labarinsu kawai kamar yadda griot zai iya.

Ta hanyar shaidar Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Pierre Guigane da Sotigui Kouyate da kansa, Sotigui Gouyate: Griot na zamani yana sanye da hoton daya daga cikin manyan 'yan wasan Afirka da ke zaune a Paris. Daga Afirka zuwa Turai, fim din ya bayyana bangarori da yawa na Sotigui Kouyate, ɗan wasan kwaikwayo, mawaƙi da griot na zamani. Wanda ya lashe kyautar ACCT a bikin fina-finai na Amiens, 1996.

"Duk da shekaru da yawa daga gida da kuma aiki da ya kunshi al'adu da yawa, ɗan wasan kwaikwayo na Mali da griot Sotigui Kouyaté bai ɓace daga babban aikinsa ba: don karya jahilci game da al'adun rayuwa na Afirka da haɗuwa da ƙanƙara a duk nahiyoyi" - Cynthia Guttman, UNESCO Courier.

## Hotunan da aka zaɓa

* 2008: *Kogin London*
* 2007: *[[Faro, Goddess of the Waters (fim)|Faro, allahiyar Ruwa]]*
* 2005: *yatsan zoben hannu*
* 2004: (fim na 2004)  
* 2002: Dirty Pretty Things (fim)  
* 2001: *[[Sia, The Dream of the Python (fim)|Sia, Mafarki na Python]]*
* 2001: Little Senegal (fim) 
* 1999: ''Farawa'' (fim na 1999) 
* 1997: *[[Keita! l'Héritage du griot (fim)|Keita!]]* *[[Keita! l'Héritage du griot (fim)|Gādon Griot]]*
* 1996: *Shuka na Mutum*
* 1993: Ya ɓace a cikin Gudanarwa*Ya ɓace a cikin zirga-zirga*
* 1992: *Golem, Ruhun Bautar*
* 1992: IP5: Tsibirin Pachyderms*IP5: Tsibirin da ke cikin Pachyderms*
* 1989: *Mahabharata*
* 1973: Toula ko kuma mai basira na ruwa*[[Toula ou Le génie des eaux|Toula ko Mai Girma na Ruwa]]*
* 1972: *[[Mata Motocin Villas Kudi|Motar Mata Villas Kudi]]*

## Manazarta