Henriette Diabaté

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Henriette Rose Diagri Diabaté , usually briefly Henriette Diabaté (born March 13, 1935 in Bingerville , Abidjan , French West Africa ), is an Ivorian politician ( RDR ) and historian . Diabaté already served the Ivory Coast as Minister of Culture (1990–93; 2000) and Minister of Justice (2003–2006). In the meantime she was also general secretary of her party, the Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR).

Life

education

Henriette Diagri Diabaté was born on March 13, 1935 in the district and today's independent municipality of Bingerville of the port city of Abidjan in what was then the French colony of West Africa. She attended the Collège Moderne de Jeunes Filles in Bingerville, the Lycée Classique in Cocody and the École normal de Rufisque in Senegal. After completing school, she studied history at the universities of Abidjan, Dakar, Aix-en-Provence and the Sorbonne, where she graduated in 1967 and 1968, respectively. After graduating, she taught at the University of Abidjan from 1968 to 1995, where she also received her doctorate in her subject in 1984.

Political career

Diabaté was part of the Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI), which emerged from the anti-colonial Rassemblement Démocratique Africain in the 1980s . Under Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara , Diabaté was appointed to the Ivory Coast cabinet; she served as Minister of Culture between 1990 and 1993.

In 1994 Diabaté and other fellow campaigners founded a new party as a spin-off from the PDCI, the Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR). In 1999, after the death of the party's first general secretary, Djéni Kobina, Henriette Diabaté was elected as the liberal party's new general secretary in the same year.

In the wake of the protests over the revocation of the citizenship of the RDR presidential candidate, Alassane Ouattara, several RDR politicians - including Diabaté - were accused of being responsible for the protests and the associated violence and were arrested on October 27. During the Christmas coup on December 23, 1999, one of the rebels' demands was the release of the RDR politicians. President Henri Konan Bédié rejected the demands, and on December 24 the rebels took power and released the prisoners. Subsequently, Diabaté served in the transitional government under Robert Guéï again as Minister for Culture and Francophonie.

Between 2003 and 2005 Diabaté was again represented in the government, she headed the justice department.

On May 18, 2011, President Alassane Ouattara, who was elected in a controversial election in 2011 - also a member of the RDR - appointed Diabaté as Grand Chancellor of the Ivorian National Order. She was (and is) the first woman to hold this office. In general, Diabaté was long considered "number 2" of the RDR to Ouattara.

Private

Diabaté was married to Lamine Diabaté , a former Ivorian minister of state, is now widowed and has five children with him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d HENRIETTE DAGRI-DIABATE. Rassemblement des Républicains, archived from the original on November 15, 2008 ; Retrieved November 15, 2016 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Côte d'Ivoire: Le résultat de la democratie des bombes - partie B. In: Cameroonvoice.com. April 20, 2013, accessed November 15, 2016 (French).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Cyril K. Daddieh: Diabaté, Henriette . In: Historical Dictionary of Cote d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast) . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISBN 978-0-8108-7186-1 , pp. 196 .
personal data
SURNAME Diabaté, Henriette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diabaté, Henriette Rose Diagri (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ivorian politician (RDR) and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bingerville , Abidjan , French West Africa