Alpha Mande Diarra is a Malian author, born in 1954. He studied veterinary medicine in France at the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort. (National Veterinary School at Alfort in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, France) He is a practicing veterinarian at Bamako and Fara in his native Mali. Bibliography 1981 Sahel, sanglante sécheresse - Présence Africaine () 1994 La Nièce de l'Imam - Editions Sepia () 1999 Rapt à Bamako (with Marie-Florence Ehret) - Editions Le Figuier/EDICEF () References 1954 births Living people Malian writers Male veterinarians People from Bamako Veterinarians from Africa 21st-century Malian people