Zarra GUIRO
    An author from Burkina Faso
    writing in French
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    Fatimata Bintou Zahrahou Guiro was born in 1957 in Séguenega, a village in the North of Burkina Faso. In 1979, she became a midwife and a family planning advocate. "I perform more than 300 deliveries per year, in very difficult conditions" she says in a short autobiographical chapter included in Au pays de Zarra. Her autobiography Zarra, accoucheuse en Afrique (published in 1994) offers a wealth of details on her activities and provides a fascinating account of the life of an African midwife.

    Publications

    Au pays de Zarra : Contes et légendes de Namissiguima, Burkina Faso. [Zarra's Country: Tales from Namissiguima] Genève : Editions NEMO, 1992. (184p.). ISBN 2-940038-00-7. (Short stories and legends)

    Zarra, accoucheuse en Afrique. [Zarra: A Midwife in Africa] Vandoeuvres : ARVAN, 1994.

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