After her childhood in France and receiving a college degree in Uzbekistan, Diallo moved to Mali.
[1] Her novel Kouty, mémoire de sang (Kouty, Memories of Blood), tells the story of a young girl in 1980s in Gao region, in the northern part of Mali, seeking revenge for the death of her family at the hands of Tuareg killers.
[2] In an interview with the magazine Bamako Culture, Diallo described the novel as "a call for tolerance and forgiveness.
"[3] Critic Pim Higginson described it as adapting the tropes of the crime novel and romance novel to criticise the fascination of Western readers with African violence.
[4] Diallo's television film Karim et Doussou, the story of a contemporary Malian marriage, was nominated for a 2011 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) award.