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Economist, sociologist, essayist,
former Ministry of Culture of Mali, Aminata Traoré is a fervent activist for the debt cancellation
of developing countries.
Coordinator of the Fist African Social Forum taking place in Bamako, in January 2002, she has
worked in several important fields of development, such as North-South relations, bilateral and
multilateral co-operation, water supplying facilities, health, gender equality, community
development.
She has studied in France at the University of Caen. She obtained a PhD in Social Psychology
and Psychopatholgy. Researcher in Social Sciences, she taught at the Ethnosociology Institute of
the University of Abidjan, and has worked for several regional and international organisations.
She first had a position beside the Minister of Women's Affairs in Ivory Coast.
Then she worked for a regional UNDP programme aiming at promoting women and disadvantaged
communities' role in water management and decontamination from 1988 to 1992.
She held the function of Minister of Culture and Tourism in Mali, from 1997 to 2000.
She was also an activist in several NGOs defending local values and knowledge and acting
through micro-realisations in the fields of culture, infrastructures rehabilitation of
disadvantaged neighbourhoods as well as fabrics promotion and African crafts.
She wrote three essays:
L’étau (édition Actes Sud, 1999),
Le viol de l’imaginaire (édition Fayard, 2002),
Lettre au président des Français à propos de la Côte-d'Ivoire et
de l'Afrique en général (édition Fayard, 2005). |
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| Aminata Traore participated in the thematic
plenary session on
Perspectives
on Governance on Wednesday 15 November from 15.00 to 17.00 and in the roundtable
Migration
and Governance on Thursday 16 November from 14.00 to 17.00. |
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