Nafissatou Niang Diallo

Nafissatou Niang Diallo ( born March 11, 1941 in Dakar, † 1982) was a Senegalese writer.

Nafissatou Diallo grew up in Dakar in a Muslim family wolofsprachigen. She attended French schools and an Islamic school. Training as a midwife, she continued in Toulouse at the Institut de puériculture. In 1961 she married Mambaye Diallo. The couple had six children. Her life she worked as a midwife and pediatric nurse.

Diallo works as a writer are primarily concerned with the role of women in society. They also came to terms with the caste system in Senegal. Their first release, De Tilène au Plateau from 1975, was an autobiographical work; she described a largely happy childhood. Then she wrote the two historical novels Le Fort maudit and La princesse de Tiali and the youth book Awa la petite marchande. The latter is about a Senegalese girl who emigrates to France with her father and returns.

The literature professor Susan Stringer called Nafissatou Diallo, a pioneer of francophone prose writers who have always been in the public in the shadow of the force as a feminist work Mariama BAS. The International Association of Langue Française de Parlementaires gave the Diallo died in 1982 posthumously the title of Chevalier de l' Ordre.

Works

• De Tilène au Plateau: Une enfance dakaroise. Les Nouvelles Editions Ines Africa, Dakar, 1975, ISBN 2-7236-0099-8
• Le Fort maudit. Hatier, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-218-05329-2
• Awa la petite marchande. Les Nouvelles Editions Ines Africa, Dakar; EDICEF, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-85069-272-7
• La Princesse de Tiali. Les Nouvelles Editions Ines Africa, Dakar, 1987, ISBN 2-7236-0956-1