Adama Samassékou from

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

is the current president, with ministerial rank, of the

African Academy of Languages The African Academy of Languages (ACALAN; french: Académie Africaine des Langues; pt, Academia Africana de Línguas or ) is a Pan-African organization founded in 2001 by Mali's then-president Alpha Oumar Konaré for the development and promotio ...

. Born in 1946 in Mali, he served between July 2002 and December 2003 as the President of the PrepCom of the Geneva phase of th
World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS). Previously, he was Malian Minister of Education (1993-2000) and former spokesperson for the Government of Mali (1997-2000). Since 2003, he is a member of th
Haut Conseil de la Francophonie
Playing an active role in community life, Mr. Samassékou is the founding President, for Mali and Africa as a whole, of the Peoples' Movement for Human Rights Education, in association wit
PDHRE
and since 21 October 2005, President of the International Federation of

ICVolunteers ICVolunteers ( ICVolontaires / ICVoluntarios) is an international non-profit organization (federation) active in the field of communications, in particular cybervolunteerism, languages and conference support. ICVolunteers works with volunteers ...

. In the political sphere, he was the founding Chairman of ADEMA-France. He was Head of the Linguistic Department of the Institute of Human Sciences of Mali, then Director of the National Library of Mali and Adviser to the Minister in charge of Culture. He is now the President of th
MAAYA World Network for Linguistic Diversity
In 2010 Mr. Samassékou served as one of the commissioners of the

Broadband Commission for Digital Development The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development (until 2015: Digital Development) was established in May 2010 as a joint initiative by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

.List of commissioners on Broadband Commission website: He speaks Bamanankan ( en, Bambara), Songhay,

Fulfulde Fula ,Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh also known as Fulani or Fulah (, , ; Adlam: , , ), is a Senegambian language spoken by around 30 million people as a set of various dialects in a continuum that stre ...

( en, Fula; french: Peul), French, Russian and English. He makes an appearance in the 2010 documentary film

Motherland (2010 film) ''Motherland'' ( ') is a 2010 independent documentary film directed and written by Owen 'Alik Shahadah. ''Motherland'' is the sequel to the 2005 documentary ''500 Years Later''. Synopsis ''Motherland'' is a documentary about the African continen ...

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External links

salzburgseminar.org
short bio 1946 births Living people Malian pan-Africanists Government ministers of Mali 21st-century Malian people {{mali-bio-stub