Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly

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Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly (born July 1, 1909 in Nouna , † September 7, 1958 in Paris ) was President of the Government Council of the French colony of Upper Volta , later Burkina Faso , from May 17, 1957 until his death .

Life

Coulibaly graduated from the École normal William Ponty in Senegal as top of the class and taught from 1935 to 1942 himself at the school. Then moved to the Ivory Coast . There he made friends with Félix Houphouët-Boigny , with whom he was involved in the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (RDA) party . Coulibaly was elected to the French National Assembly and Senate several times as a member of the Ivory Coast . In the mid-1950s, he and Joseph Conombo set up the RDA subsidiary Parti Démocratique Unifié (PDU) in Upper Volta. In 1957 he was elected as a PDU member of the Upper Volta's Territorial Assembly and then put together the Upper Volta's first own government. He died in office.

Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly was married to the women's rights activist and politician Célestine Ouezzin Coulibaly .

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Individual evidence

  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. 48-49 .
  2. ↑ Kathleen Sheldon : Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa . 2nd Edition. Scarecrow, Lanham 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6292-8 , pp. 228 .
personal data
SURNAME Coulibaly, Daniel Ouezzin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Burkinabe head of government
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Nouna
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1958
Place of death Paris