Bernadette Sanou Dao
Bernadette Sanou Dao (born 25 February 1952 in Bamako, French Sudan) is a Burkinabé author and politician. At age 11, her family returned to Upper Volta from Mali. She attended Kolog-Naba college in Ouagadougou and later Ohio University in the United States and the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
Also recorded as Bernadette Dao · Bernadette Sanou-Dao · Sanou Bernadette Dao · Bernadette Dao Sanou
Bernadette Sanou Dao
IdealCom · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Name
- Bernadette Sanou Dao
- Born
- 25 February 1952
- Birthplace
- Bamako, French Sudan
- Education
- Ohio University
- Occupation
- author and politician
- Known for
- Poetry, short-stories and children's stories
- Nationality
- Burkina Faso and Mali.
- Languages
- French.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Bernadette Sanou Dao (born 25 February 1952 in Bamako, French Sudan) is a Burkinabé author and politician. At age 11, her family returned to Upper Volta from Mali. She attended Kolog-Naba college in Ouagadougou and later Ohio University in the United States and the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Bernadette Sanou Dao. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q4892815 · wikipedia · Bernadette Sanou Dao
In this article
Biography
Biography
From 1986 to 1987, she was Burkina Faso's Minister for Culture. She lives in Ouagadougou. She writes poetry, short stories, and children's stories.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Bernadette Sanou Dao • Born — 25 February 1952 • Birthplace — Bamako, French Sudan • Education — Ohio University • Occupation — author and politician • Known for — Poetry, short-stories and children's stories
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
She also worked under the name Mâh Dao. The authorities additionally record the headings Bernadette Dao, Bernadette Sanou-Dao, Sanou Bernadette Dao, Bernadette Dao Sanou and Bernadette Sanou. Her recorded language was French.
Identity
Identity
Bernadette Sanou Dao is recorded as writer, politician, teacher and poet.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1952
Bernadette Sanou Dao born at Bamako.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Ouagadougou.
Residences
Bamako.
Birth place
Literature
Scholarly footprint
A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.harvsp Angèle Ouédraogo 2003
- 2.Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso. Scarecrow Press. 2013. 978-0-8108-6770-3.
- 3.harvsp Herzberger-Fofana 2000
- 4.84-85.
- 5.Dao, Bernadette. e-man CARTOMAC : Archives littéraires d'Afrique et de la Caraïbe.
- 6.Chapitre auteur1= titre chapitre=Une femme comme il faut. Bernadette Dao Sanou titre ouvrage=Des femmes écrivent l'Afrique: L'Afrique de l'Ouest et le Sahel lieu=Paris éditeur=éditions Karthala année=2007 isbn=978-2-84586-853-3 lire en ligne=https://books.google.fr/books?id=xyHZSvTKw9cC&pg=PA506&lpg=PA506&dq=%22bernadette+sanou+dao%22+-wiki+%C3%A9meraudes&source=bl&ots=_Wjy9YLtTX&sig=w2p58TsillJG6Hvf1unJoYPn98A&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiSzd-Ak4XaAhWJuhQKHR55Cs0Q6AEIXzAN#v=onepage&q=%22bernadette%20sanou%20dao%22%20-wiki%20%C3%A9meraudes&f=false passage=507-509 .
- 7.Boris Noah, Lakalita. Mots d’Elles - Association des Écrivaines Burkinabè. Lakalitamagazine. 2022-05-17.
- 8.New Griottes of the African Sahel: Intersectionalities and Women’s Narrative Authority in Sanou Bernadette Dao’s La Dernière èpouse & Aïcha Fofona’s Mariage on Copie. Advances in Literary Study. 4. 54-66.> lire en. 2016.
- 9.Bernadette Sanou Dao.Parturition. Ethic village. 19 juillet 2010.
- 10.harvsp Yaméogo 2017 p= id=
- 11.Quelqu'un à la porte. Fasocinéma. Association des critiques de cinéma du Burkina. 17 mars 2016.
- 12.La Crèche du petit Mohammed. Takam Tikou. juillet 2013.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
38,960 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Berlie DohertyAuthor
- Bern PorterAuthor
- Bernadette MenuAuthor
- Bernadette PetersAuthor
- Bernal de BonavalAuthor
- Bernal Díaz del BrawlAuthor
- Bernard AltumAuthor
- Bernard AndréAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Bernadette Sanou Dao?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.