Aï Keïta Yara is a Burkinabé actress[1][2] who played the lead role in the 1986 film Sarraounia.
[3] Sarraounia won several awards,[4] after which she was able to act in more movies and television shows, including the 2004 comedy-drama Tasuma.
[7] As of 2011, she was working as a civil servant processing medical records at Yalgado National Hospital Center in Ouagadougou.
[1] Keïta is married with two children, and speaks Fula, Dyula, Mooré, Zarma and French.
[1] When he arrived in Burkina Faso he married a woman from the village of Mardaga in Tapoa Province who later became Keïta's maternal grandmother.