Sirah Baldé de Labé

Sirah Baldé de Labé was born in 1929 in Labé, in Fouta Djallon, the daughter of Shaikou Baldé, a teacher who ran the Guinean branch of the Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire. A former pupil of the École normale de Rufisque, in Senegal, she was a schoolteacher for many years and described herself as the first woman to teach French in the former Fula kingdom of Fouta Djallon, then under French protectorate. She came to present her book on Guinean television in March 1986. She died in 2018 and was buried in her home town.

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• NovelD'un Fouta-Djalloo à l'autreSirah Baldé de Labé · 1985not translated into EnglishLiterature