Mariama Keïta

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Mariama Keïta (* 1946 in Niamey ; † October 29, 2018 in Istanbul ) was a Nigerian journalist .

Life

Mariama Keïta had a license in English and spoke five other languages, including Hausa and French , the official language of Niger . Already working as a journalist at a very young age, Keïta is considered to be the first woman from Niger to practice this profession. She began her career as an editor and news anchor for the radio program Voix du Sahel of the state broadcaster ORTN . She also worked as a sound engineer and lighting technician and eventually became director of Voix du Sahel .

Keïta took part in the run-up to the presidential and parliamentary elections of 1993 in a campaign to popularize Niger's new, democratic constitution , which was adopted in the 1992 constitutional referendum . She made a name for herself as the figurehead of the emerging civil society and from 1993 to 1994 headed the collective Démocratie, Liberté, Développement , one of the country's first non-governmental organizations . In 1994 she founded the Coordination des organizations non gouvernementales et associations féminines nigériennes (CONGAFEN), the first association in the country to which non-governmental women's organizations belonged and of which she was president until 1997. From 2003 to 2006, Mariama Keïta was President of the Conseil Supérieur de la Communication (CSC) media regulator . Most recently she worked as a communications consultant. She was a member of the Nigerien section of Transparency International until her death .

Mariama Keïta had two children and was married three times. She died after a long illness.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Niger, Portrait de Mariama Keïta. In: Africa24. March 10, 2016, accessed November 2, 2018 (French, video).
  2. ↑ Décès de Mariama Keita, doyenne de la presse nigérienne. Agence Nigérienne de Presse, October 30, 2018, accessed November 2, 2018 (French).
  3. ↑ a b c d La première femme journaliste du Niger, Mariama Keïta, est morte. In: Le Figaro.fr. October 29, 2018, accessed November 2, 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ a b c d Nécrologie: décès de Mariama Keita, la doyenne de la presse nigérienne. In: ActuNiger. October 29, 2018, accessed November 2, 2018 (French).
  5. ↑ Communiqué de décès: Madame Mariama Keita, décédée le lundi 29 October 2018 in Istanbul (Turquie). In: Niger Diaspora. October 30, 2018, accessed November 2, 2018 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Keïta, Mariama
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Niamey
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2018
Place of death Istanbul