Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo (born 8 February 1967) is an Ivoirian-born Canadian poet and journalist.

She wrote her first poem around the age of 11 to 12, after being influenced by her brother Francis, who would go on to be a well known poet in Côte d'Ivoire.

[2] She studied at the University of Ouagadougou and subsequently moved to Canada after she received a grant to do so,[2] receiving a doctorate from the University of Ottawa and a journalism degree from the Université de Montréal.

Between 2009 and 2012, she worked as an advisor in Burkina Faso on equal rights for men and women.

[3] She has created her own publishing house in Canada, Éditions Malaïka, which she aims to use to concentrate on African themes.