Joseph Conombo

Joseph Issoufou Conombo (born February 9, 1917 in Kombissiri , Upper Senegal and Niger , today Burkina Faso , † December 20, 2008 ) was Prime Minister of Upper Volta , today's Burkina Faso , from 1978 to 1980 .

Political career

In France

Conombo was a doctor after attending the École normal William Ponty and the medical school in Dakar . During World War II, he was part of a Senegalese unit that took part in the landing in southern France in 1944 . Conombo went into politics before the independence of Upper Volta, which belongs to France . In 1948 he was elected to the Assembly of the Union française . Since June 17, 1951, he was a member of the French National Assembly . In 1954 he became State Secretary in the Interior Ministry during the reign of Pierre Mendès-France . In this office he was responsible for the French overseas territories and the workers from North Africa living in France. On January 2, 1956, he was re-elected to the National Assembly. In 1958 he represented Upper Volta in the Senate of the Communauté Française .

In Upper Volta

In the 1950s, he and Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly were among the leading figures in the Parti démocratique unifié (PDU) party .

From 1971 to 1974 he was foreign minister in the military government of President Sangoulé Lamizana, who had ruled since 1966 . On July 7, 1978, after the introduction of a new constitution, he became head of government of a civil government; the president had held this position himself since 1974. Both terms ended on November 25, 1980, when Saye Zerbo took power through a military coup . Zerbo was Conombo's successor as foreign minister in 1974.

Works

Mon idée - projet de société pour laute volta. (1976)
Souvenirs de guerre d'un "tirailleur Sénégalais". (1989)
Mba Tinga or the traditional Mossé dans l'Empire du Moogho-Naba. (1989)
Acteur de mon Temps: un voltaïque dans le XXè siècle. (2003)
Une autre conquête de l'Afrique par l'Amour et la Charité. (2003)

Web links

Entry in the archives of the French National Assembly (French)

Individual evidence

↑ Lawrence Rupley, Lamissa Bangali, Boureima Diamitani: Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso . 3. Edition. Scarecrow, Lanham / Toronto / Plymouth 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-6770-3 , pp. 45 .

personal data
SURNAME	Conombo, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Conombo, Joseph Issoufou (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Burkinabe politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kombissiri
DATE OF DEATH	December 20, 2008

[1] Lawrence Rupley, Lamissa Bangali, Boureima Diamitani: Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso . 3. Edition. Scarecrow, Lanham / Toronto / Plymouth 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-6770-3 , pp. 45 .