Madjiguène Cissé
Madjiguène Cissé (* 1951 in Dakar , Senegal ) is a Senegalese women activist, former spokeswoman for the French Sans Papiers movement and founder of the women's network for sustainable development in Africa ( Refdaf ).
Life
Cissé was born in Dakar in 1951. The parents were initially illiterate and came to the city from the countryside, while the ambitious and progressive father taught himself to read and obtained his driver's license. This enabled him to work as a school bus driver under French colonial rule. At the instigation of the father, Cissé attended the French school from 1958. In 1968 she took part in school strikes and demonstrations. After high school she started in 1972 at the grade newly founded German department of the University of Dakar to study German literature , from 1974 they could in two years by a grant from Saarbruecken study. Then she lived again in Dakar and worked as a German teacher at the grammar school. In 1996 she went to Paris with her daughter because she was supposed to study there. Although she still had legal residence status at the time, she joined the emerging Sans Papiers movement in March 1996 and quickly became one of its spokesmen. Since 2000 she has been living in Dakar again, where she co-founded the women's network Réseau des femmes pour le développement durable en Afrique (REFDAF), of which she became director. The aim of the organization is to improve the living conditions of women by improving education, granting microcredits to improve the economic basis and, more recently, the establishment of a women's settlement.
Fonts
- Papers for everyone. The Sans Papiers Movement in France . Association A Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 978-3924737450
Awards
- 1998: Carl von Ossietzky Medal of the International League for Human Rights together with Les Collectifs des SANS-PAPIERS
- 2011: Margravine Wilhelmine Prize of the City of Bayreuth
Web links
- Literature by and about Madjiguène Cissé in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Madjiguène Cissé at perlentaucher.de
- Documentation of the French Sans Papiers movement
- REFDAF on the Internet (Réseau des femmes pour le développement durable en Afrique)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Perlentaucher , query date: September 21, 2013.
- ↑ “As if one no longer exists” civil rights activist Madjiguène Cissé on the life of refugees in France , Deutschlandfunk Kultur, December 14, 2009: Madjiguène Cissé in conversation with Katrin Heise
- ↑ taz trips to Senegal, Christmas 2014 and February 2015 , trips in cooperation with Madjiguène Cissé, the head of the Senegalese women's network REFDAF
- ↑ “You will be able to live well” , Interview with Madjiguène Cissé in the Sunday of February 6, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cissé, Madjiguène |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cisse, Madjiguene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Senegalese women activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dakar , Senegal |