Yoda received her diploma from the École Normale Supérieure d’Enseignement Technique et Professionnel in Dakar, Senegal, where she studied social and familial economics.

Before serving in public office, she spent a long career working for non-governmental organizations and some government groups.

[1] She was the first female secretary general of SPONG (the Secrétariat Permanent des ONG, Burkina Faso's organization of NGO's); she served in this position for two terms.

[2] She was subsequently named as the Burkina Faso's Ambassador to Denmark, and held that post until 2007 when she returned to her country to become the Minister for the Promotion of Women once more.

[5] She later described that she felt that the equal rights between men and women that she saw there and in other Scandinavian countries was something she hoped would eventually be fostered in Africa.