Alpha Mandé Diarra

Diarra, Mandé-Alpha (b. 1954). Malian novelist. Educated at Alfort, Paris, and Montpelier, Diarra alternated writing with veterinary and economics studies and development work at home. His novel, Sahel! Sanglante sécheresse (1981), depicts the harsh realities of starvation, necrophagy, and drought in a Mali village victimized by a corrupt bureaucracy.

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Alpha Mande Diarra is a Malian author, born in 1954. He studied veterinary medicine in France at the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort. (National Veterinary School at Alfort in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, France) He is a practicing veterinarian at Bamako and Fara in his native Mali.

Bibliography

• 1981 Sahel, sanglante sécheresse - Présence Africaine (ISBN 2708703897)
• 1994 La Nièce de l'Imam - Editions Sepia (ISBN 2907888536)
• 1999 Rapt à Bamako (with Marie-Florence Ehret) - Editions Le Figuier/EDICEF (ISBN 2841296458)

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