Amie Bojang-Sissoho

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Amie Bojang-Sissoho (born in Gunjur ) is a Gambian women's rights activist and politician.

family

She is the daughter of Imam Hatab Bojang (1937–1984). Her father was married to Ya Khan Jobe and one other woman and had three sons and four daughters at the time of his death. Her paternal grandparents were Pa Sano Bojang and Mariama Cham ( Mba-binki Cham ).

Life

Bojang-Sissoho graduated from the University of Southampton in Great Britain with a Bachelor's degree in Media and Cultural Studies .

She worked for Gambia Radio & Television Service (GRTS) for a long time .

She is involved in the women's rights organization GAMCOTRAP ( Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children ), which campaigns against female genital mutilation , among other things , and takes on program coordination and public relations work there. According to her own statements, this commitment is met with strong rejection in her traditional, religious family, as, for example, her grandmother also performed genital mutilation. The procedure with serious consequences was performed on herself at the age of ten.

Together with Isatou Touray , who also works for GAMCOTRAP, she was arrested on October 11, 2010 and detained in Mile 2 prison on charges of embezzlement of 30,000 euros . The government had previously taken massive action against GAMCOTRAP. In the trial, which lasted until November 2012, they were defended by Amie Bensouda .

She supported Isatou Touray as campaign manager in the run-up to the Gambia presidential elections in 2016 , until she withdrew her candidacy in favor of Adama Barrow . After winning the election, Barrow named her the government's Director of Press and Public Relations in February 2017 . She is the first woman in Gambia to hold this office.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b glife: Profiles in Faith: The Life and Times of the late Sheikh Hatab Bojang. In: glo Magazine. June 18, 2017, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Staff Profile. April 4, 2018, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Women's Bantabaa: Women's Bantabaa: 'I have realized that my voice is my power'. In: Women's Bantabaa. February 7, 2013, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Amie Bojang-Sissoho. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Two Prominent Gender and Human Rights Defenders detained in The Gambia: Dr. Isatou Touray and Amie Bojang Sissoho »African Feminist Forum. October 18, 2010, accessed January 15, 2019 (American English).
  6. ↑ Gamcotrap's Isatou Touray, Amie Bojang freed. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  7. ^ Gambian Journalists, Support Our Director of Press Amie Bojang-Sissoho. In: GAINAKO. June 25, 2017, accessed on January 15, 2019 (American English): "Amie Bojang Sissoho has entered the record books as the first Director of Press in the Gambia and Africa (to the best of my knowledge)"
personal data
SURNAME Bojang-Sissoho, Amie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian women's rights activist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Gunjur