Shaïda Zarumey
BornFatouma Agnès Diaroumèye
1938 (age 8485)
Bamako, Mali
OccupationPoet
Sociologist
NationalityNigerian
GenrePoetry

Shaïda Zarumey (born Fatouma Agnès Diaroumèye, 1938) is a Nigerien sociologist and poet, one of the first in her country to write in French.

Born in Bamako to a Nigerien father and a Malian mother, Diaroumèye spent the first ten years of her life in Niger, where she completed her primary studies. She continued her education in Mali[1] before obtaining a doctorate in Paris in 1970. A socioeconomist by training, she began working in Dakar at the Institut Africain de Développement Économique et de Planification of the United Nations, where she was employed from 1970 to 1975; she then became a functionary dedicated to women's rights.[2] She has traveled widely in support of her work.[1] As a poet, under the pen name Shaïda Zarumey, she published Alternances pour le sultan in 1981.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Shaïda Zarumey". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  2. SUTHERLAND-ADY Esi et DIAW Aminata (1 May 2007). Des femmes écrivent l'Afrique. L'Afrique de l'Ouest et le Sahel. KARTHALA Editions. pp. 438–. ISBN 978-2-8111-4152-3.
  3. Toyin Falola Ph.D.; Daniel Jean-Jacques (14 December 2015). Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [3 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society. ABC-CLIO. pp. 932–. ISBN 978-1-59884-666-9.


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