# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-marie-adiaffi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:33:19.895Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-marie-adiaffi"
name: "Jean-Marie Adiaffi"
slug: "jean-marie-adiaffi"
description: "Jean-Marie Adé Adiaffi or Jean-Marie Adiaffi was a writer, screenwriter, filmmaker and Ivorian critic. He studied film at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) and philosophy at the Sorbonne, before teaching in his home country. He published his first collection of poems, \"Yalé Sonan\" in 1969. His novel \"La carte d'identité\", reflection on African postcolonial cultural alienation, receives the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire. Next, came \"D'éclairs et de foudre\" and \"La Galerie infernale\" (1984), \"Silence, on développe\" (1992). Committed in the modernization of African religions, he is the creator of \"Bossonisme\", a neologism designating a genius which is worshiped."
tagline: "Writer and filmmaker (1941–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Marie_Adiaffi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-01-01"
deathDate: "1999-11-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.678402666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump