Aïssatou Diamanka-Besland

[citation needed] Aïssatou DIAMANKA-BESLAND was born in 1972 in Pikine, Senegal.

After a two- year diploma after high school) in Communications at ISSIC (Institut superieur de l' Information et de la Communication), she arrived in France in 1999 and undertook studies in Political Science to obtain her bachelor's, master's, and finally her PhD.

Her father fought in the Wars of Indochina and Algeria for France as a Senegalese Tirailleur.

She is co-author of the booklet of Black Requiem "Le Requim noir", a text on slavery performed and sung on Stage in Dakar and in the Island of France between 2006 and 2007.

[citation needed] If writing remains an unquestionable passion for Aïssatou DIAMANKA-BESLAND, she is journalist by profession, a job that holds a very special place in her heart.