Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper

Dorothy Harriet Eugenia Musuleng Cooper , Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper for short (born September 9, 1930 in Arthington , Montserrado County , Liberia , † June 30, 2009 in Monrovia , Liberia) was a Liberian teacher and politician. Musulgen-Cooper was Liberia's first female foreign minister.

Life

Youth and education

Musuleng-Cooper was born on September 9, 1930 in Arthington in Montserrado County on the Liberian coast. After finishing school, she first attended the College of West Africa in Monrovia. Then attended the San Francisco State University with the help of a scholarship and completed her studies of elementary education first with a Bachelor, then with a Master. She worked temporarily as a teacher in San Francisco.

Political career

Musuleng-Cooper later returned to her home country Liberia and became politically active in the rebel group National Patriotic Front of Liberia . From the power struggle between Taylor and the incumbent government under Samuel Doe , the Liberian civil war broke out, which lasted between 1989 and 1999. Cooper served as education minister in Charles Taylor's shadow cabinet from 1990 to 1993. In 1994 she was appointed vice chairman of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia. Taylor then named her Secretary of State, making her the first Liberian woman to hold this post.

Cooper headed the department until 1995. In that year the various groups in the country signed a peace treaty, Musuleng-Cooper signed it for the NPFL.

In 2001 Taylor created the Ministry of Gender and Development in his government and appointed Cooper minister. She held the office until 2003.

death

Cooper died on June 30, 2009 at John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Monrovia , leaving eight children behind.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Cooper, Dorothy Musuleng . In: Elwood D. Dunn, Amos J. Beyan, Carl Patrick Burrowes (eds.): Historical Dictionary of Liberia (=  Historical Dictionaries of Africa ). 2nd Edition. No. 83 . Scarecrow Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8108-3876-5 , pp. 87 .
2. ^ Warring Liberians Form Government to Rule Until Elections. In: Los Angeles Times. August 17, 1993, accessed December 1, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Lisa Kindervater: Seize the Day: Gender Politics in Liberia's Transition to Peace and Democracy. (PDF) In: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. August 2013, accessed December 5, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Dr. Dorothy Harriet Eugenia Musuleng Cooper 'D-Mus'. (No longer available online.) In: People to People. 2009, archived from the original on March 25, 2017 ; accessed on December 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.