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Place of Birth: Bandiagara, Mopti Region, Mali
About Madina Ly-Tall
- Madina Ly-Tall (born 25 April 1940 in Bandiagara) is a Malian historian and diplomat. Ly-Tall was born into a political family, being a descendant of El Hadj Umar Tall, founder of the Toucouleur Empire and her father was a member of the Sudanese Progressive Party (PSP).
- She received her schooling in Koutiala from 1947 to 1952 before enrolling in a four-year course at the Modern College of Young Women in Bamako.
- She subsequently studied at the Lycée Terrasson de Fougère.
- She joined the African Independence Party (PAI) in 1958, before moving to Toulouse, France for further studying.
- While in France she was active with the Federation of Students of Black Africa in France (FEANF) before returning to Mali in 1965.Ly-Tall taught at various schools in Bamako in the latter half of the 1960s, including the Lycée Askia Mohamed in Bamako (1965-1966), the Lycée des Jeunes Filles (1966-1967) and École Normale Secondaire de Filles (1967-1968), and was headmistress of the latter two.
- She returned to France in 1969 where she settled in Villiers-le-Bel and did work for UNESCO while studying African history at the Sorbonne.
- From 1972 Ly-Tall was an opponent of the military regime in her native country and she was exiled from the country in the late 1970s, moving to Dakar, Senegal.
- In Dakar she published works such as Contribution à l'histoire de l'Empire du Mali (XIIe-XVIe siècles) : limites, principales provinces, institutions politiques in 1977 and Un Islam militant en Afrique de l'ouest au XIXE Siecle in 1991.
- While in Dakar her family became involved with the Malian Party for the Revolution and Democracy (PMRD) and various groups within the National Democratic and Popular Front (FNDP).
- She returned to Mali during the 1991 Malian revolution, where she was appointed vice-president of the National Conference just as the new democratic regime was being drafted.
- She participated in the political campaign of Alpha Oumar Konaré in 1992.
- Ly-Tall has since spent time in both her native country and France.
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