The historical series "The kings of Segou" Boubacar Sidibé Malian director who tells the foundation and the climax of this kingdom of the 18th century is competing in the fiction category Tv history of the Bambara kingdom of Segou has become a legend. Several historians have tried to tell it, in different versions with common denominators for the drama and wonder. The writer Maryse Condé from Guadeloupe had already written the fall of Segou in the eponymous novel. Boubacar Sidibe, he has chosen to trace its genesis in a series of three television seasons of 21 episodes of 26 minutes, "Kings of Segou," produced by the Office de Radio Television du Mali (ORTM) Brico-films Sarama and movies. The series written and directed by Boubacar Sidibe brush over 105 years, history of the four kings who led Segou in its heyday: Biton, N'Golo, and Da Monzon.
The plot of the first season plunges us in a Malian village of the 18th century. By a result of serendipity, Biton Coulibaly, a peaceful hunter, finds himself enthroned as head of the village to protect it from thieves. Become powerful thanks to the jinn, he foiled the plots of his enemies. If men have the best role in this series, women are no less present, and especially manipulative. At this point Boubacar Sidibe told to one of his characters: "Never man can not understand the many facets of women". Humor fierce Sidibe helps refresh this historical series. This is particularly true when, in the first episode, a husband runs off with the arrival robbers abandoning his wife. Here, nothing has been left to chance: the sets are magnificent natural or implanted, the big shots that the director preferred the term used to enter characters in a society where silence is golden. The series is honorably worn by its players, including Kary B. Coulibaly, superb in the role of the griot in which he had excelled in "Dou" by the same director. A series in which Boubacar Sidibe has drawn heavily on players' Kings of Segou, the actors play knowing French does not run the streets in Mali, according explanations.
To address the unspoken history and the poor results of the literature search he conducted for a year, Boubacar Sidibe started his imagination, with varying degrees of success. Thus, long fake nails were placed on the fingers of the jinn, the risk of touching the grotesque and caricature. Kings of Segou in interest in history opens a new genre in TV series in Africa. For the director, the past provides insight into the future.
This series is competing in the TV Drama category at the 22nd Fespaco. In the past, Boubacar Sidibe had won two awards at Fespaco: Best Fiction Film TV in 2001 with "Seko" and in 2003 with "Sanoudje.
Stephanie Dongmo Ouagadougou
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