Oumou Armand Diarra

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Oumou Armand Diarra is the pseudonym of Malian writer Oumou Modibo Sangare. She is the author of several articles about the struggle of women in Africa and Mali. She advocates social development while being consistent with the positive rules of the traditional and modern society of her country. [1]

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Oumou was born in Belgrade in 1967 and educated in Mali, the Ivory Coast, where her father was Ambassador for Mali, and Tunisia. She enrolled at the Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes in Tunis. In 1994 she graduated from this Institute with a Diploma in Chinese and Italian. In 1996, Oumou obtained a Masters in French literature, communication and cinema. During her study, she was the general secretary of the Mali Student Association in Tunisia. From 1991 to 1996 she was trained and worked at l'Office de la Radiodiffusion Télévision in Mali. Married with two children, Oumou now lives in New York. [2] In 2014 and 2016 she helped organize the Biennial of Women's Letters in Bamako. [3]

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  1. 1 2 "Introduction: Oumou Armand Diarra, écrivaine malienne" (in French). Archived from the original on February 12, 2019. Retrieved 2019-02-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. "Oumou Armand Diarra". aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-02-09.
  3. Moussa Bolly, Diarra Oumou Armand Sangaré, écrivaine : «Les écrivaines doivent être des ambassadrices de la paix», Journal L'Indépendant (maliweb.net), 28 August 2015.
  4. Diarra, Oumou Armand (2011-02-01). The Shadow of the Mysterious Nayouma. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN   9781456868994.