Bambara, a language spoken primarily in West Africa, faces resource limitations that hinder the development of natural language processing (NLP) applications. This chapter presents a comprehensive cross-lingual transfer learning (CTL) approach to harness knowledge from other languages and substantially improve the performance of Bambara NLP tasks. The authors meticulously outline the methodology, including the creation of a Bambara corpus, training a CTL classifier, evaluating its performance across different languages, conducting a rigorous comparative analysis against baseline methods, and providing insights into future research directions. The results indicate that CTL is a promising and feasible approach to elevate the effectiveness of NLP tasks in Bambara.