Nafissatou Niang Diallo

Nafissatou Niang Diallo was born on 11 March 1941 in Tilène, a working-class district of Dakar. Her mother died when she was a year and a half old, and her paternal grandmother raised her. After the Champ-de-Courses primary school, the modern girls' secondary school and the Van Vollenhoven lycée, she entered the state midwifery school at eighteen. Married in 1961, the mother of six children, she went to train for two years in Toulouse, then worked as a midwife in her country's health services, which she served for twelve years. She died in 1982.

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• NarrativeA Dakar ChildhoodDe Tilène au Plateau, une enfance dakaroiseNafissatou Niang Diallo · 1975Literature