[1] She is the daughter of Diallo Lalla Sy, a Malian politician, the former Minister of Employment and Public Service.

[2] She began in the private sector where as founder of the earliest public relations agency (since 1998),[3] she advises and supports the development of several private companies and affixes her mark of creativity on the major international events that have marked the Malian scene between 2000 and 2010.

She then entered the political arena and in 2013 became the deputy director of the presidential campaign for the election of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, who then embodied the hope for change and national sovereignty.

Appointed Minister of Handicrafts, Tourism and Culture, she designed and implemented a vast program entitled Timbuktu Renaissance and passes the first law on intellectual property, which recognizes the status of artists and their right to live.

[8][9] The new government of Mali in April 2017 renewed her appointment as the Minister of Culture in a statement that suggested that she was rewarded with the renewal of her mandate because of her previous work that included the reduction of the staffing at her department and adoption of a consensual textual agreement that should allow artists to live decently of their copyrights.