Biography
Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, alias Fatumbi or Fátúmbí (4 November 1902, in Paris – 11 February 1996, in Salvador, Brazil) was a photographer, self-taught ethnographer, and babalawo (Yoruba priest of Ifà) who devoted most of his life to the study of the African diaspora — the slave trade, the African-based religions of the new world, and the resulting cultural and economical flows from and to Africa.
Filmography
all 6
Movies 6
self 5
Director 1
Self (archive footage)
Môa, Mother Africa Roots (2023)
Movie
Self
Abry (2003)
Movie
Narrator / Screenplay / Director
Carnaval Brasil — Anos 40 (1985)
Movie
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1902-11-04
Deathday1996-02-11 (93 years old)
Birth PlaceParis, Ile-de-France, France
Religionatheism
CitizenshipsFrance
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