Julienne Keutcha

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Julienne Keutcha (born October 21, 1924 in Ngwatta , Menoua ) is a Cameroonian politician. She was the first woman in the country's National Assembly .

politics

Cameroon was the first colony to gain independence from France in the "African Year" on January 1, 1960. On April 10, 1960, the pediatric nurse Keutcha was elected the first woman to sit in the legislative assembly of the Republic of Cameroon ( Cameroun Oriental ) . She held this position until 1965. After the annexation and independence of the British Mandate Trust Territory on October 1, 1961, Keutcha also moved into the Federal Assembly (Assemblée nationale fédérale) of the Federal Republic of Cameroon from 1962 to 1972 . She was a member of the Menoua department. In the parliaments, Keutcha advocated the emancipation of women and girls. She advocated lowering the entry age for the Lycée to 14 years and demanded expulsion from school for every boy who impregnated a girl "because he had destroyed the hope of an entire family". In 1969 she became a member of the Political Bureau of the Union Nationale Camerounaise (UNC / CNU). She was the only woman on this body at the time. There she published the work Visages de la femme camerounaise in 1975 .

Her husband Jean Keutcha (1923–2012) was, among other things, a diplomat and foreign minister for the country.

Fonts

  • Visages de la femme camerounaise . OFUNC 1,975.

literature

  • Keutcha, Julienne ; Keutcha, Jean . In: Mark Dike DeLancey, Mark W. Delancey, Rebecca Neh Mbuh: Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon . Rowman & Littlefield 2019. p. 291. Online (English)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Les élites africaines . Édiafric, Paris 1972. p. 207.
  2. ↑ mediaterre.org: 98 females à l'honneur au Cameroun . (French, accessed August 28, 2019)
  3. ↑ ici cameroun.com: Les 50 femmes des 50 dernières années (25). KEUTCHA Julienne . (French, accessed August 28, 2019)
  4. ↑ Keutcha, Julienne . In: Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon . P. 291.
personal data
SURNAME Keutcha, Julienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian politician and MP
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Ngwatta , Menoua , Cameroon