Aïda Mady Diallo

Aïda Mady Diallo is a French-born Malian novelist and director. After passing her childhood in France and receiving a college degree in Uzbekistan, Diallo moved to Mali.[1] She is the author of the 2002 novel Kouty, mémoire de sang (Kouty, Memories of Blood), published by Gallimard, which tells the story of a young girl in 1980s Gao seeking 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 critique 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 FESPACO award.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/02/aida-mady-diallo-karim-and-doussou.html
  2. ↑ http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/revieweng_madydiallo10.html
  3. ↑ http://www.bamako-culture.org/spip.php?article77
  4. ↑ Higginson, Pim. "Tortured Bodies, Loved Bodies: Gendering African Popular Fiction." Research in African Literatures 39.4 (Winter 2008): 133-146.
  5. ↑ http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/cinema/fespaco/p-14709-FESPACO-Selection-officielle-competition.htm