Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo

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Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo (born 1956) is a Guinean poet, novelist and playwright who writes in both French and Fulani.[1]

Life

Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo was born in 1956 in Labé, Guinea.[2]

She has also worked as an agricultural engineer.

In 2002 she and Bonata Dieng founded the Fouta Djallon Museum in Labé.[3]

Works

  • Moi, femme (Me, a woman), 1994.
  • Pellun Gondhi, Guinée: Éditions Ganndal, 1996
  • Les épines de l'amour (The Thorns of Love), Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997
  • Pour les oiseaux du ciel et de la terre (For the birds of heaven and earth), UNICEF, 1997
  • Comme les pétales du crépuscule (Like Petals at Dawn), Lomé: La Semeuse, 1998.
  • Comme une colombe en furie, poésie pour enfants (Like a dove in fury, poetry for children), éditions Linda, 1999
  • La morte de la guerre (The dead of war), 2000.
  • Daado l'orpheline et autres contes du Fouta Djallon de Guinée (Daado the orphan girl, and other stories of the Guinea's Fouta Djallon), Paris: L'Harmattan, 2004
  • Le Fils du roi Guémé et autres contes du Fouta Djallon de Guinée (The son of the King of Guémé and other stories of Guinea's Fouta Djallon), Paris: L'Harmattan, 2004. With a preface by Bernard Salvaing.
  • Les rires du silence (The Joys of Silence), Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005
  • Les humiliées (Humiliated Women), Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005.
  • Ngôtté-le-génie de la chasse - conte du Fouta Djallon en Guinée (Ngôtté the hunting genius - a story of the Guinea's Fouta Djallon), Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007
  • Les fous du septième ciel: Au-dela de l’excision (The madmen of the seventh heaven: Beyond circumcision), Silex/Nouvelles du Sud, 2014

References

  1. ^ "Diallo K Zeinab". aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  2. ^ Lisa McNee (2003). "Diallo, Koumanthio Zeinab". In Simon Gikandi (ed.). Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-134-58223-5.
  3. ^ Mohamed Saliou Camara; Thomas O'Toole; Janice E. Baker (2013). Historical Dictionary of Guinea. Scarecrow Press. pp. 221–2. ISBN 978-0-8108-7969-0.
  • African Moon by Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo, translated by Janis A. Mayes


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