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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. =Writings=

Shaïda Zarumey, was one of the first Nigerian woman writers in the French language to publish an anthology of 30 poems entitled Alternances Pour le Sultan (Alternanaces for the Sultan), her take on feminism and the plight of African women.

Zarumey served as a diplomat in several African countries and traveled to Europe, Asia, and the United States. Her writing reflects a therapeutic construct. She states that she began to write out of "sadness" and "loneliness" because she was away from her home and country and she needed to speak in an interview with Debra Boyd-Buggs. Zarumey's poetry employs traditional poetic tools such as metaphors, simile, and alliteration. Her work reflects feminine sensitivity on all levels: she is a woman, mother, lover, and sister. By way of apostrophic references addressed directly to the sultan, she uses images of physical love thst would have been considered taboo in Muslim society. Shelice0610 (talk)SheliceO610

=Bibliography=

Antoinette Tidjani Alou, "Alternations for the Sultan. Shaida Zarumey, " in Esi Sutherland-Ady and Aminata Diaw, Women Writing Africa. West Africa and the Sahel, Editions Karthala,2007, p. 438-439.

Antoinette Tidjani Alou, "Zarumey, Shaida [Mali 1938]" in Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque and Mireille Calle-Gruber (ed.), The Universal Dictionary of creative , women Publishing ,2013, p. 4692.

Jean-Dominique Pénel, "The degree of Francophony varies from country to country", in Sahelian literature of Lake Chad Basin: Voices, Languages ​​and Poetics , Contemporary Archives,2015, p. 119.

( In ) Ph.D Toyin Falola and Jean-Jacques Daniel, Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society, ABC-CLIO, 14,2015, p. 932.