Fatou Djibo

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Fatou Yacouba Djibo (* 27. April 1927 in Téra ; † 6. April 2016 in Niamey ; born Fadima Hassane Diallo ) was a Nigerien women's rights activist .

Life

Fatou Djibo's father was a traditional ruler appointed by the French colonial administration as the district leader of Téra. In a step that was unusual at the time, he sent his daughter, when she was seven years old, to the just opened primary school in Téra. Fatou Djibo was one of the first girls from Niger to go to school. She continued her education at the secondary school in the capital Niamey and finally at the teacher training institute École normal de Rufisque in Senegal . She graduated with distinction in 1946. In the same year she married the teacher Djibo Yacouba . She had eight children.

Fatou Djibo worked as a primary school teacher from 1946 to 1966, initially in Fada N'Gourma and later in Maradi , Zinder , Tillabéri and Niamey. In 1954 she was the first woman driver in Niger. Djibo founded the women's organization Union des Femmes du Niger (UFN) in 1959 , of which she was president for many years. During the First Republic (1960–1974) she was the public face for the concerns of women in Niger. She argued that the development of a country cannot be complete without the emancipation of women and that the degradation and humiliation of women must be stopped by appropriate laws. At the same time she saw the primary task of the Nigerien woman as educator of the citizens of the future. Fatou Djibo followed her husband to Brussels when he was appointed ambassador in 1966 . After his death in 1968 she returned to Niger, where she was now the treasurer of the Lycée Kassaï school in Niamey. In 1971 she also became Deputy Treasurer of the Union Nationale des Travailleurs du Niger (UNTN).

Djibo retired in 1983 and continued to work for trade unions, the Red Cross and other organizations in old age .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Grand-Mothers Fatou and Anne-Marie. (PDF) African Action on Aids, 2016, accessed on December 28, 2017 .
  2. ^ François Martin: Le Niger du Président Diori. Chronology 1960–1974 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7384-0952-0 , pp. 27 and 58-59 .
  3. ^ François Martin: Le Niger du Président Diori. Chronology 1960–1974 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7384-0952-0 , pp. 309 .
personal data
SURNAME Djibo, Fatou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yacouba Djibo, Fatou (full name); Hassane Diallo, Fadima (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Téra
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2016
Place of death Niamey