Joseph Conombo
Joseph Issoufou Conombo (born February 9, 1917 in Kombissiri , Upper Senegal and Niger , today Burkina Faso , † December 20, 2008 ) was Prime Minister of Upper Volta , today's Burkina Faso , from 1978 to 1980 .
Political career
In France
Conombo was a doctor after attending the École normal William Ponty and the medical school in Dakar . During World War II, he was part of a Senegalese unit that took part in the landing in southern France in 1944 . Conombo went into politics before the independence of Upper Volta, which belongs to France . In 1948 he was elected to the Assembly of the Union française . Since June 17, 1951, he was a member of the French National Assembly . In 1954 he became State Secretary in the Interior Ministry during the reign of Pierre Mendès-France . In this office he was responsible for the French overseas territories and the workers from North Africa living in France. On January 2, 1956, he was re-elected to the National Assembly. In 1958 he represented Upper Volta in the Senate of the Communauté Française .
In Upper Volta
In the 1950s, he and Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly were among the leading figures in the Parti démocratique unifié (PDU) party .
From 1971 to 1974 he was foreign minister in the military government of President Sangoulé Lamizana, who had ruled since 1966 . On July 7, 1978, after the introduction of a new constitution, he became head of government of a civil government; the president had held this position himself since 1974. Both terms ended on November 25, 1980, when Saye Zerbo took power through a military coup . Zerbo was Conombo's successor as foreign minister in 1974.
Works
- Mon idée - projet de société pour laute volta. (1976)
- Souvenirs de guerre d'un "tirailleur Sénégalais". (1989)
- Mba Tinga or the traditional Mossé dans l'Empire du Moogho-Naba. (1989)
- Acteur de mon Temps: un voltaïque dans le XXè siècle. (2003)
- Une autre conquête de l'Afrique par l'Amour et la Charité. (2003)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 45 .
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SURNAME | Conombo, Joseph |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Conombo, Joseph Issoufou (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Burkinabe politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1917 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kombissiri |
DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 2008 |