Sarah Bouyain
Encyclopedia
Sarah Bouyain is a French
-Burkinabé
writer and film director.
while he was studying there.
Having originally studied mathematics
, Bouyain later shifted her attention to cinematography
. After studying the topic, at the Louis Lumière School of Cinematography, she went on to work as a camerawomen for several films, and eventually directed several of her own.
She wrote her book Metisse façon after researching her Africa
n heritage in Burkina Faso. She learned of the history of Upper Volta
(as Burkina Faso was known in colonial
times) and of children who were born to African women and French soldiers only to be forced to leave their mothers to live in orphanages. The characters in Metisse façon are based on these children.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
-Burkinabé
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...
writer and film director.
Biography
Bouyain's mother, who was French, and her father, who was half Burkinabé and half French, met in FranceFrance
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
while he was studying there.
Having originally studied mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Bouyain later shifted her attention to cinematography
Cinematography
Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...
. After studying the topic, at the Louis Lumière School of Cinematography, she went on to work as a camerawomen for several films, and eventually directed several of her own.
She wrote her book Metisse façon after researching her Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
n heritage in Burkina Faso. She learned of the history of Upper Volta
French Upper Volta
Upper Volta was a colony of French West Africaestablished on March 1, 1919, from territories that had been part of the colonies of Upper Senegal and Niger and the Côte d'Ivoire...
(as Burkina Faso was known in colonial
Colonialism
Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. It is a process whereby the metropole claims sovereignty over the colony and the social structure, government, and economics of the colony are changed by...
times) and of children who were born to African women and French soldiers only to be forced to leave their mothers to live in orphanages. The characters in Metisse façon are based on these children.