Nurukyor Claude Somda

Nurukyor Claude Somda (born December 31, 1949 in Koukouligou , Upper Volta , today Burkina Faso ; † May 5, 2009 ) was a politician, historian and football official from the West African state of Burkina Faso.

Somda was born in Koukouligou , a village in the province of Ioba ( Sud-Ouest region ) that is now part of the Dissin municipality . He studied history in Ouagadougou and Paris , and later taught at the University of Ouagadougou . In his functions as a politician, Somda was a member of the national parliament (1992-1994), from 1994 to 1996 Minister of Communication and Culture ( ministre de la Communication et de la Culture ) and government spokesman. First he was a member of the party Organization pour la democratie populaire / Mouvement du travail (ODP / MT), then of the Congrès pour la democratie et le progrès (CDP).

At the time of the Thomas Sankaras revolution , he served as president of the national football association FBF from 1983 to 1985 .

His daughter Julie Prudence Nigna / Somda became Minister for Human Rights and Promotion of Civil Society ( ministre des Droits humains et de la Promotion civique ) in the government of Luc-Adolphe Tiao in 2013 .

Publications

• With Richard Kuba, Carola Lentz : Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso . Karthala, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84586-459-0 .
• La pénétration coloniale en pays Dagara, 1897-1914 , Audir-Hachette, Paris 1975.
• Espaces et mobilité lignagère dans le sud-ouest du Burkina: l'exemple du Dagara

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} LeFaso.net , May 11, 2009 . Retrieved April 8, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b} LeFaso.net , May 6, 2009 . Retrieved April 8, 2018.
3. ^ Bassirou Sanogo: La Longue Marche du football burkinabè. Survol historique 1935–1998. Sidwaya, Ouagadougou 1998
4. ↑ aOuaga.com , February 8, 2013 . Retrieved April 8, 2018.