Ali Lankoandé (10 November 1930
[CV]
at petiteacademie.gov.bf . – 28 May 2014) is a
Burkinabé politician from Burkina Faso. He was President of the
Party for Democracy and Progress/Socialist Party (PDP/PS) from 2005 to 2008.
Lankoandé headed the National Social Security Fund and served as a deputy in the
National Assembly of Burkina Faso
The unicameral National Assembly is Burkina Faso's legislative body. In 1995, it became the lower house of a bicameral Parliament, but the upper house ( Chamber of Representatives) was abolished in 2002. The upper house was to have been restored ...
, as well as Minister of National Education, during the 1970s.
[
Lankoandé was elected to succeed ]Joseph Ki-Zerbo
Joseph Ki-Zerbo (June 21, 1922 – December 4, 2006, Burkina Faso) was a Burkinabé historian, politician and writer. He is recognized as one of Africa's foremost thinkers.
From 1972 to 1978 he was professor of African History at the University o ...
as President of the PDP/PS on 5 February 2005.[ Running as the PDP/PS candidate in the 13 November 2005 presidential election, Lankoandé placed sixth out of 13 candidates, receiving 1.74% of the vote.
Lankoandé died on 28 May 2014."Qui était le Pr Ali Lankoandé ?"]
, Radio Omega, 12 August 2016.
His wife was Diallo/lankoande Fatima.
His children are Lankoandé/Simporé Aïssa, Lankoandé/Ouedraogo Ramata, Lankoandé Karim, Lankoandé/Yoni Aminata, Lankoandé Ousseini, Lankoandé Hassan, Lankoandé/Ouedraogo Mariam.
References
Members of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso
1930 births
2014 deaths
Education ministers of Burkina Faso
Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party politicians
21st-century Burkinabé people
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