Nafissatou Niang Diallo

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

Nafissatou Diallo grew up in a Muslim Wolof-speaking family in Dakar. She attended French schools and a Koran school. She continued her training as a midwife at the Institut de puériculture in Toulouse . In 1961 she married Mambaye Diallo. The couple had six children. She worked as a midwife and pediatric nurse throughout her life.

Diallo's works as a writer deal primarily with the role of women in society. In addition, she dealt with the caste system of Senegal. Her first publication, De Tilène au Plateau from 1975, was an autobiographical work; she described a largely happy childhood. She then wrote the two historical novels Le Fort maudit and La princesse de Tiali as well as the youth book Awa la petite marchande . The latter is about a Senegalese girl who emigrates to France with her father and then returns.

The literature professor Susan Stringer calls Nafissatou Diallo a pioneer of Francophone prose writers, who, however, has always been overshadowed in public by Mariama Bâ 's work, which is considered more feminist . The Association Internationale des Parlementaires de Langue Française awarded Diallo, who died in 1982, posthumously the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre.

Diallo was included in the Daughters of Africa anthology published in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

Works

• De Tilène au Plateau: Une enfance dakaroise. Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines, 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 Africaines, Dakar; EDICEF, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-85069-272-7
• La Princesse de Tiali. Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines, Dakar 1987, ISBN 2-7236-0956-1

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Lisa McNee: Nafissatou Diallo (1941–1982). In: Pushpa Naidu Parekh, Siga Fatima Jagne (ed.): Postcolonial African writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0313290563
2. ^ ^{A b c} Jean-Marie Volet: Nafissatou Niang Diallo . Retrieved August 31, 2010
3. ^ Susan Stringer: Nafissatou Diallo - A Pioneer in Black African Writing. In: Eunice Myers, Ginette Adamson (Eds.): Continental, Latin-American, and Francophone Women Writers: 1986-1987 . University Press of America, 1990, ISBN 0819175935

Web links

• Literature by and about Nafissatou Niang Diallo in the catalog of the German National Library