Maxime Ouédraogo

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Maxime Ouédraogo (born September 12, 1923 in Lallé , Upper Volta , today Burkina Faso , † September 15, 2001 ) was a politician and football official from the West African state of Burkina Faso.

He was born the son of a postman in Lallé , a village that is now part of the municipality of Siglé in the province of Boulkiemdé ( Center-Ouest region ). By profession he was a technical employee in the health sector in May 1959, one year before the independence of the French colony, as Minister of Labor and a member of the government council under Maurice Yaméogo ; he was not a member of the first cabinet after independence in 1960. He was part of the radical wing of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (RDA), which campaigned for complete independence from the former colonial power France .

Until 1962 he was Minister for Post and Telecommunications ( ministre des Postes et Télécommunications ), then Minister for Public Service and Labor ( ministre de la Fonction publique et du Travail ). Commissioned by President Yaméogo to create a unified union ( Union Nationale des Syndicats des Travailleurs de Haute-Volta , UNST-HV), he encountered strong opposition from the existing autonomous trade union groups. The establishment of a consumer cooperative ( Coopérative Centrale de Consommation de Haute-Volta , CCCHV) did nothing to change that. On June 18, 1963, he was arrested on the pretext of misappropriating funds. Since this was common practice of the government at the time, the reason instead was that the Ouédraogo, which was very popular with the youth, developed into a serious competitor for Yaméogo through the establishment of a political clientele in Ouagadougou . In August 1965, he was sentenced to ten years of forced labor. After Yaméogo's fall in January 1966, Ouédraogo, imprisoned in Koudougou , was released and was later rehabilitated by the Upper Voltaic Supreme Court.

In the period shortly before independence, the co-founder and president of the football club Jeanne d'Arc (today ASFA-Yennenga Ouagadougou ) was chairman of the football district for Ouagadougou within the sporting administration of French West Africa . After gaining independence in 1960, Ouédraogo was president of the national football association, today's Fédération Burkinabè de Football (FBF), until his imprisonment in 1963 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LeFaso.net , December 28, 2007 . Retrieved April 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ Bernadette Deville-Danthu: Le sport en noir et blanc , L'Harmattan, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-7384-4978-6
  3. ↑ LeFaso.net , December 10, 2010 . Retrieved April 2, 2018.
  4. ↑ Yacouba Zerbo : La coopération militaire franco-voltaïque et la question des accords de defense de 1959 to 1964 . In: Yénouyaba Georges Madiéga , Oumarou Nao (ed.): Burkina Faso. Cent ans d'histoire 1895–1995 . Karthala, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84586-431-0 .
  5. ↑ Pascal Zagré : Les politiques économiques du Burkina Faso . Karthala, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-86537-535-8 .
  6. ↑ a b In: Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens , No. 30, 1974
  7. ↑ LeFaso.net , December 10, 2010
  8. ^ Bassirou Sanogo: La Longue Marche du football burkinabè. Survol historique 1935–1998. Sidwaya, Ouagadougou 1998
personal data
SURNAME Ouédraogo, Maxime
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Burkinabe politician and football official
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Lallé , Upper Volta
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 2001