Sandra Pierrette Kanzie

Sandra Pierrette Kanzié (born 14 April 1966, Abidjan, Ivory Coast) is a poet and the first woman from Burkina Faso to be published.

Biography Kanzié was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on 14 April 1966. Her family moved to Burkina Faso, where she attended primary school at Bobo-Dioulasso and Bo. Kanzié loved writing from a young age and her first poems were published at this time. She graduated from her secondary education at the Lycee Mixte Montaigne, Ouagadougou, in 1988. An increasing number of women from Burkina Faso have been published there since the 1980s, including Kanzié, Bernadette Dao and Angele Bassole-Ouedraogo. Kanzié's work has been published in Women's Studies Quarterly to illustrate women's writing from her country.

Kanzié is the first woman from Burkina Faso to be published. The work is framed as heartbreaking dialogues between a mother and son.