Her novel Kouty, mémoire de sang (Kouty, Memories of Blood), tells the story of a young girl in 1980s Gao seeking the death of her family at the hands of Tuareg killers.[2] In an interview with the magazine Bamako Culture, Diallo described the novel as "a call for tolerance and forgiveness."[3] Critic Pim Higginson described it as adapting the tropes of the crime novel and romance novel to critique the fascination of Western readers with African violence.[4]