Bintou Sanankoua
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| Born | 1943 |
| Nationality | Malian |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, politician |
| Notable work | Un empire peul au XIXe siècle: La Diina du Maasina |
Bintou Sanankoua is a historian from Mali,[1][2] who is Professor of History at the École Normale Supérieure de Bamako.[3][4] She specialises in the history of Mali in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has produced a study of the fall of the former president, Modibo Keita.[5]
Brought up as part of the household that the author Amadou Hampâté Bâ was responsible for,[6] Her close connection to the family meant that she was able to access family papers for her work Un empire peul au XIXe siècle: La Diina du Maasina, she also accessed archived held at the Ahmed Baba Centre in Timbuktu.[7] In her work as a historian, she has expanded Bâ's own work on the life of the Dina people in the nineteenth century.[6] She has also pioneered the study of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi.[8] She has worked on the Bayān mā waqaʿa - a text which describes the defeat of the Ḥamdallāhi.[9]
First elected as a member of the National Assembly of Mali in 1997, her candidacy was supported by Coordination des Associations et ONG Féminines du Mali (CAFO).[10][11][4] She has also held the role of Regional Coordinator for the Promotion of Women in Mopti.[12] She is a member of the Collectif des Femmes du Mali (Women’s Collective of Mali) [COFEM].[13]
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