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Delphine Zanga Tsogo (born December 21, 1935 in Lomié , † July 16, 2020 in Yaoundé ) was a Cameroonian politician who was also known as a writer . She was one of the first African women to hold leading political offices.

Life and political career

Delphine Zanga Tsogo attended secondary school in Douala until she moved to Toulouse in 1955 . There she obtained a state diploma as a nurse . In 1960 she returned to Cameroon and practiced this profession at several hospitals.

Her political career first climaxed in 1964 when she was appointed national president of the Council of Cameroonian Women . From 1965 to 1972 she sat in the National Assembly of Cameroon , 1970 to 1975 she was Deputy Minister for Health and Public Welfare. From 1975 to 1984 she was Minister for Social Affairs.

She was also active in the international women's council from 1966 to 1976 , was President of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) in 1979 and served as a juror on the UNESCO literary committee from 1984 to 1986 . In 2011 Delphine Zanga Tsogo was a member of the electoral authority of Cameroon (ELECAM). She died on July 16, 2020 at the age of 85 after an illness lasting several months.

Literary activity

Delphine Zanga Tsogo dedicated her first novel, Vies de Femmes ( Eng . Life of Women ), to her three daughters, her sisters, friends and all the women who influenced her and the book. She chose the title of the book deliberately because she wanted to give a voice to all the women who had confided in her but never spoke publicly. In particular, she also addressed the issue of sexuality and the exploitation of women by wealthy men. The main character of the book, Dang, encounters both prostitutes and married women in the novel and brings these voices to the book. Her second book, L'Oiseau en cage (Eng. The bird in the cage ), deals with the issue of gender equality and the suffering of women in patriarchy . However, both books do not represent extreme feminism.

Publications

  • Vies de Femmes. (Women's Lives). Novel. Yaoundé 1983.
  • L'Oiseau en cage. (The Caged Bird). Novel. Paris 1984.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nécrologie: Delphine Tsanga n'est plus (French)
  2. ↑ Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Henry Louis Gates, Mr Steven J. Niven: Dictionary of African Biography . OUP USA, 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 7, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Delphine Zanga Tsogo. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  4. ^ Mark Dike DeLancey, Mark W. Delancey, Rebecca Neh Mbuh: Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon . Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, ISBN 978-1-5381-1968-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 8, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi: Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference . Indiana University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-253-21149-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 9, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Simon Gikandi: Encyclopedia of African Literature . Routledge, 2003, ISBN 1-134-58223-4 ( google.de [accessed September 7, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Zanga Tsogo, dolphins
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tsanga, dolphins
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian politician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Lomié , Cameroon
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2020
Place of death Yaoundé , Cameroon