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          Known for ; Death of Two Sons ().

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        2. Born in a Muslim family of royal descent in Guinea, West Africa, Diallo was married at age thirteen to a man who was thirty and already had a wife.
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          5. Born in a Muslim family of royal descent in Guinea, West Africa, Diallo was married at age thirteen to a man who was thirty and already had a wife..

          Diallo, Kadiatou 1959-

          PERSONAL:

          Born 1959, in Guinea; female; married Saikou Diallo (divorced); married Sankarela Diallo.

          ADDRESSES:

          Home—New York, NY, and Rockville, MD.

          Agent—c/o Author Mail, Ballantine Books, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.

          CAREER:

          Public speaker and former gem dealer. Also founder of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

          AWARDS, HONORS:

          Christopher Award in books for adults, 2004, for My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou.

          WRITINGS:

          (With Craig Wolff) My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou, One World/Ballantine (New York, NY), 2003.

          SIDELIGHTS:

          In the early hours of February 4, 1999, West African immigrant Amadou Diallo was killed by four New York City police officers who mistook his attempt to retrieve his wallet for pulling out a gun.

          They fired forty-one times, almost immediately killing the twenty-three-year-old man on the front steps of his apartment building in the Bronx.

          During the public outcry again