Célestine Ouezzin Coulibaly
Célestine Ouezzin Coulibaly | |
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Drawing depicting Célestine Ouezzin Coulibaly | |
| Minister of Social Affairs, Housing and Employment | |
| In office 24 October 1958 – 1959 | |
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| Born | Macoucou Traoré 1914 |
| Died | 1997 (aged 82–83) |
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Makoukou Célestine Ouezzin Coulibaly-Traoré (born Macoucou Traoré; 1914–1997) was an anti-colonial leader in French West Africa. She helped to set up the women's section of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain in Côte d'Ivoire and Upper Volta, becoming its secretary general in 1948. In 1958, she was appointed Upper Volta's Minister of Social Affairs, probably making her the first woman to join a cabinet in any of the French-speaking West African governments.