| Is |
Poet Sociologist |
| From |
Nigeria |
| Type |
Literature Social science |
| Gender | female |
Shaïda Zarumey (born Fatouma Agnès Diaroumèye, 1938) is a Nigerien sociologist and poet, one of the first in her country to write in French.
Born in Bamako to a Nigerien father and a Malian mother, Diaroumèye spent the first ten years of her life in Niger, where she completed her primary studies. She continued her education in Mali before obtaining a doctorate in Paris in 1970. A socioeconomist by training, she began working in Dakar at the Institut Africain de Développement Économique et de Planification of the United Nations, where she was employed from 1970 to 1975; she then became a functionary dedicated to women’s rights. She has traveled widely in support of her work. As a poet, under the nom de plume Shaïda Zarumey, she published Alternances pour le sultan in 1981.