Aissa Diori was a patron of the Union des Femmes du Niger (UFN) and had several artists, such as Bouli Kakasi, sing her praises.

[3] The First Lady and her UFN, however, anchored the presence of women-specific concerns to the public, to which later feminist endeavours for political participation from the 1990s onwards took their root.

In the United States, she did not hesitate to lend her support to black school children that were victims of racial discrimination.

Diori owned many luxury houses in Niamey which she rented to foreign embassies and corporate executives at very high rates.

[7] Her Tuareg guards also died in the coup, the only casualties in a largely bloodless affair that led to the dissolution of her husband's government.