Bintou Sanankoua is a historian from Mali,[1][2] who is Professor of History at the École Normale Supérieure de Bamako.
[5] Brought up as part of the household that the author Amadou Hampâté Bâ was responsible for,[6] Her close connection to the family meant that she was able to access family papers for her work Un empire peul au XIXe siècle: La Diina du Maasina, she also accessed archived held at the Ahmed Baba Centre in Timbuktu.
[8] She has worked on the Bayān mā waqaʿa - a text which describes the defeat of the Ḥamdallāhi.
[9] First elected as a member of the National Assembly of Mali in 1997, her candidacy was supported by Coordination des Associations et ONG Féminines du Mali (CAFO).
[10][11][4] She has also held the role of Regional Coordinator for the Promotion of Women in Mopti.