Drabo was in the Malian capital of Bamako, Mali, where he showed an interest in film since his childhood.
For ten years, he was a schoolteacher in a Malian village, and in his spare time he painted and wrote plays.
),[5] which was nominated for the Gold Lion prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, and featured at FESPACO.
[6] In 1997, he produced Taafé Fanga, which tells the story of a Dogon woman who finds a magical mask and uses its powers to reverse gender roles in her village.
He died in Algeria from cardiac arrest during the "Festival culturel panafricain d’Alger".