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Nafissatou Dia Diouf (born September 11, 1973 in Dakar) is a Senegalese writer in French.[ citation needed ]
Her father was a diplomat and her mother was a teacher. She attended the Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux 3, where she studied Applied Foreign Languages in International Commerce, Marketing and Commercial Law, Business and Commerce. She has also completed postgraduate studies in Industrial Logistics. Five years later, she came back to Senegal.[ citation needed ]
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