Aoua Kéita

Aoua Kéita (* 1912 in Bamako, Mali; † May 7, 1980 ibid ) was an African activist and writer from Mali.

After leaving school in her hometown Kéita visited Dakar in the medical school and graduated with a diploma. In 1935 she married the doctor M. Diawara, from whom she was divorced later. From 1946, she was active in the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, who won virtually all French colonies in Africa influence. In the 50s, she founded the Collective Female Trade Union Movement and represented the organization in 1957 also at the Constitutional Congress of the General Union of Workers of Black Africa. In 1958 she became a member of the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Sudan, the later Mali. Finally, she was elected to Parliament in 1959, where he had considerable influence, until it came to a rift with Modibo Keïta.

Honors

Works (selection)

• Femme d' Afrique. La vie d' elle- même par Aoua Kéita. Présence Africaine edition, Paris, 1975, ISBN 2-7087-0320- X.

• Author
• Novel, epic
• Autobiography
• Artist (Mali)
• Politicians (Mali)
• Malians
• Person (Bamako )
• Born in 1912
• Died in 1980
• Woman