Bernadette Dao

Bernadette Sanou Dao was born on 25 February 1952 in Baguinda, near Bamako, and returned to Burkina with her family at the age of eleven. She took her baccalauréat in 1972 at the Notre-Dame de Kolog-Naba school and studied in Dakar, at Ohio University and at the Sorbonne. She was minister of culture from 1986 to 1987, then held other public offices, and writes poetry, short stories and children's books. She lives in Ouagadougou.

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• PoetryParturitionBernadette Dao · 1986not translated into EnglishLiterature