[1] Baldé is best known for her 1985 novel D'un Fouta-Djalloo à l'autre (From One Futa Jalon to the Other), published by La Pensée Universelle.
[3] The work was a four-volume family saga set in the 18th century and featuring themes of tribal war.
[4] She appeared on the Guinean television programme Papier plume Parole in 1986 to speak about the work.
[4] Like other novels authored by French-speaking African women writers (such as Awa Thiam and Henriette Diabaté) from the same period, it is written in the first person in the style of an autobiography.
[5] The scholar Jean-Marie Volet noted in 2008 that the book is "almost impossible to find", but that Baldé's writing as a pioneer of French education "is most important".