Bye Bye Africa

Bye Bye Africa
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Directed byMahamat Saleh Haroun
Written byMahamat Saleh Haroun
StarringMahamat Saleh Haroun
Garba Issa
Aïcha Yelena
Abakar Mahamat-Saleh
CinematographyStephane Legoux, Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Edited bySarah Taouss Matton
Music byAl-hadj Ahmat dit Pecos
Issa Bongo
Ringo Efoua-Ela
Distributed byCalifornia Newsreel (USA)
Les Histoires Weba (France)
Release date
  • September 1999 (1999-09) (Venice)
Running time
86 minutes
CountriesFrance
Chad
LanguagesArabic, French
Budget~USD100,000[1]

Bye Bye Africa is a 1999 award-winning Chadian film. It was the first by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun, who also starred. The docu-drama centers on a fictionalized version of Haroun.

  1. ^ "2000 Toronto International Film Festival—Part 2: Without flinching" by David Walsh, World Socialist Website, 28 September 2000