| Aida Mady Diallo | |
|---|---|
| Born | France |
| Nationality | Mali, France |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist and director |
Aïda Mady Diallo is a French and Malian novelist and director. She is the author of the novel Kouty, mémoire de sang (2002).
Life and work
After her childhood in France and receiving a college degree in Uzbekistan, Diallo moved to Mali.
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. In an interview with the magazine Bamako Culture, Diallo described the novel as "a call for tolerance and forgiveness." 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.
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.
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.
References
- "Aïda Mady Diallo: Karim and Doussou", African Women In Cinema Blog, 18 February 2011.
- "Aïda Mady DIALLO – Kouty, mémoire de sang". aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
- Siddick, Minga S. (13 September 2003). "Aïda Mady Diallo : L'Africaine de la série noire". Bamako Culture (in French). Archived from the original on 11 April 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
- Higginson, Pim. "Tortured Bodies, Loved Bodies: Gendering African Popular Fiction." Research in African Literatures 39.4 (Winter 2008): 133–146.
- 22eme FESPACO", TV5 Monde. Accessed 15 November 2017.
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