Alioune Ifra Ndiaye

Alioune Ifra Ndiaye (born ) is a Malian film director and playwright.

Biography Ndiaye is the son of a gendarme, and his older brother is film director Souleymane Cissé. In 1998, Ndiaye founded the BlonBa theatre troupe alongside his friend, French philosopher and writer Jean-Louis Sagot-Duvauroux. He also studied cultural relations at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. The cultural space was forced to close in the aftermath of the 2012 Malian coup d'état, but its French branch allowed it to remain in business.

Ndiaye also directed documentaries, fiction films, and music videos, and he invented the telekotèba concept. In 2017, the BlonBa cultural space reopened.