Aïda Mady Diallo
Malian writer and film director
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Life and work
After her childhood in France and receiving a college degree in Uzbekistan, Diallo moved to Mali.[1]
Her novel Kouty, mémoire de sang (Kouty, Memories of Blood), tells the story of a young girl in 1980s in Gao region, in the northern part of Mali, seeking revenge for the death of her family at the hands of Tuareg killers.[2] In an interview with the magazine Bamako Culture, Diallo described the novel as "a call for tolerance and forgiveness."[3] Critic Pim Higginson described it as adapting the tropes of the crime novel and romance novel to criticise the fascination of Western readers with African violence.[4]
Diallo's television film Karim et Doussou, the story of a contemporary Malian marriage, was nominated for a 2011 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) award.[5]
Publications
- Kouty, mémoire de sang. Paris: Gallimard, 2002. ISBN 2-07-042251-8.
- Aïda Mady Diallo. Les Carnets de la Creation series. Montreuil, Paris: l'Oeil, 2003. ISBN 978-2912415493. A short story by Diallo with photographs by Antoine d'Agata. In French.
