Katy Léna N'diaye

Katy Léna N'diaye (born 1968) is a Senegalese-French journalist and documentary filmmaker, best known for her documentaries about women muralists in Africa.

Life
Born in Dakar, Senegal, N'diaye grew up in Paris, France and later moved to Brussels, Belgium. She studied modern literature in Paris, and undertook further study in broadcast journalism at the Institut des hautes études des communications sociales  (IHECS, École de journalisme de Bruxelles) at Brussels. She has worked as a journalist for TV5 Monde, hosting a TV magazine Reflets Sud, and for RTBF, and lives in Brussels.

In 2003 N'diaye directed her first documentary Traces on mural painting by Kassena women in Burkina Faso. In the documentary, three old women explain the content of the murals covering the reddish-clay huts to Anetina, a young unmarried woman. Awaiting for Men documented three older women talking as they painted the town wall in Oualata, an oasis town on the edge of the Sahara Desert in southeast Mauritania.