Mali / 1997 / 95mins / Comedy, Drama / Kaado, Bambara and French

Dogon mythology and revolution inspire this comic Malian tale of village women who force their men folk to do “women’s work.” Skirt Power was winner of the special jury prize, 1997 FESPACO Film Festival.

Adama Drabo

Adama Drabo was born in Bamako, Mali in 1948. While teaching primary school, he began writing for the theater. In 1979, he entered Mali’s Centre National de Production Cinématographique (CNPC) and later served as Cheick Oumar Sissoko’s assistant director on two films, Nyamanton and Finzan. In 1988, Drabo directed his own short film, Nieba, la journée d’une paysanne (Nieba, A Day in the Life of a Peasant Woman). Ta Dona (1991) was his first feature as a director. It won the Prix Oumarou Ganda at the 1991 FESPACO. Adama Drabo passed away in 2009. Learn More