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École Normale De Rufisque
The École normale de Rufisque was a teacher-training institute for women from French West Africa in Rufisque, Senegal. It existed from 1938 to 1958. History The École normale de Rufisque for girls was founded thirty-five years after its equivalent for boys, the École normale William Ponty. Run by the colonial administration, the teacher-training college offered the highest level of education girls could get in the areas of West Africa colonised by France. The first director of the school was from 1938 to 1945 was a Frenchwoman Germaine Le Goff, who had been commissioned by the Senegalese government to create its first normal school for teachers. The pupils were girls and young women aged between thirteen and twenty, who were from a variety of West African countries.  In the first few years of the school's foundation, a large number of pupils attended from the southern colonies such as Dahomey and a few directly from Senegal. The training scheme lasted for four years. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufisque
Rufisque (; Wolof: Tëngeéj) is a city in the Dakar region of western Senegal, at the base of the Cap-Vert Peninsula east of Dakar, the capital. It has a population of 295,459 (2023 census).Citypopulation.de Population of the major cities in Senegal In the past it was an important port city in its own right, but is now a of Dakar. Rufisque is also the capital of the department of the same name. History [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariama Bâ
Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929 – August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, whose two French-language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages. Born in Dakar, Senegal, Dakar, Senegal, she was raised a Muslim. Her frustration with the fate of African women is expressed in her first novel, ''So Long a Letter, Une si longue lettre'' (1979; translated into English as ''So Long a Letter''). In this semi-autobiographical epistolary novel, epistolary work, Bâ depicts the sorrow and resignation of a woman who must share the mourning for her late husband with his second, younger wife. This short book was awarded the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1980 in literature, 1980. Biography Bâ was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1929, into an educated and well-to-do Senegalese family of Lebu people, Lebu ethnicity. Her mother, Fatou Kiné Gaye, died when Mariama was 4. Her father, Amadou Bâ, founded the separatist African Autonomist Movement in 1946. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aminata Tall
Aminata Tall (born 1949 in Diourbel) is a politician of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS). Life and career Tall attended the Girls' Normal Schools of Thiès and Rufisque, where she earned a D-series ''Baccalauréat''. She earned a doctorate in Canada and taught at the ''École normale supérieure'' of Dakar. She was a State Minister, the Minister of Local Authorities and Devolution, also a deputy to the National Assembly and mayor of Diourbel Diourbel (; Serer language, Serer: ''Jurbel'', Wolof language, Wolof: ''Njaaréem'') is a town and urban commune in Senegal lying east of Thiès. It is known for its mosque and local peanut, groundnut industry and is the capital of the Diourbe .... However, in 2007, she refused her nomination as the deputy chairwoman of the National Assembly and did not join the government of Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré. In October 2009, she became the General Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic of Senegal, succeeding Abdoulaye Baldé who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Gervais
Jeanne Gervais, ''née'' Jeanne Ahou Siefer-N’Dri (June 6, 1922 – December 9, 2012) was an Ivorian politician and the first woman minister in Côte d'Ivoire. Born in Grand-Bassam, Gervais was the daughter of a French father and a Baoulé mother. A longtime member of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire – African Democratic Rally, she participated in the women's march in her hometown in 1949. Trained as a teacher at the École normal de Rufisque, she became one of three women, alongside Hortense Aka-Anghui and Gladys Anoma, elected to the National Assembly immediately after independence. She served in that body from 1965 until 1980. In 1976, she was named head of the Ministry of Women's Affairs, remaining in that role until 1984 and becoming the first woman to serve in the Ivorian cabinet. She was also active for many years as president of the Association des Femmes Ivoiriennes The Association des Femmes Ivoiriennes (AFI) or Association of Ivorian Women is a women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safi Faye
Safi Faye (November 22, 1943 – February 22, 2023) was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist.Petrolle, p. 177. She was the first African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, '' Kaddu Beykat'', which was released in 1975. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focusing on rural life in Senegal. Early life and education Safi Faye was born in 1943 in Dakar, Senegal, to an aristocratic Serer family. Her parents, the Fayes, were from Fad'jal, a village south of Dakar.Foster, p. 130. She attended the École normal de Rufisque, or Normal School, in Rufisque and receiving her teaching certificate in 1962 or 1963, began teaching in Dakar. In 1966 she went to the Dakar Festival of Negro Arts and met French ethnologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch. He encouraged her to use film making as an ethnographic tool. She had an acting role in his 1971 film ''Petit à petit''.Ukadike, p. 29. Faye has said that she dislikes Rouch's film but that working with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Mbaye D'Erneville
Annette Mbaye d’Erneville (born 23 June 1926) is a Senegalese writer. She is the mother of filmmaker Ousmane William Mbaye, and was the subject of his 2008 documentary film, '' Mère-Bi''. Career Born on 23 June 1926 in Sokone, Senegal, and educated locally, she began her working life as a teacher. In 1947 she went to France to study journalism, and since 1963 was active in Radio Senegal, rising to become Director of Programmes. She has also been a journalist specializing in women's issues and in 1963 launched ''Awa'' magazine, the first francophone publication for African women.Margaret Busby (ed.), '' Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent'', London: Jonathan Cape, 1992; Vintage, 1993, p. 330. She specialises in writing children's literature and poetry and is associated with the Musée de la Femme Henriette-Bathily in Gorée. Works *1965: ''Poèmes africains'' *1966: ''Kaddu'' (réédition des poèmes) *1976: ''Chans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatou Djibo
Fatou Djibo (27 April 1927 - 6 April 2016) was a Nigerien women's rights activist, feminist, educator and trade unionist. She was President of the Union des Femmes du Niger and was also the first woman from Niger to drive a car. Biography Born Fadima Hassane Diallo on 27 April 1927, Djibo's father was Chief Djagourou, a traditional ruler appointed by the French colonial administration to the district leader of Téra where she was born. In a step that was unusual at the time, he sent his daughter, when she was seven years old, to the newly opened primary school in Téra and as result was one of the first Nigerian girls to go to school. She continued her education at the higher elementary school in the capital Niamey and finally at the teacher training institute École normal de Rufisque in Senegal. She graduated with distinction in 1946. In the same year she married the teacher Djibo Yacouba with whom she had eight children. From 1946 to 1966, Djibo worked as a primary school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Martin Cissé
Jeanne Martin Cissé (6 April 1926 – 21 February 2017) was a Guinea, Guinean teacher and nationalist politician who served as ambassador to the United Nations and in 1972 was the first woman to serve as President of the United Nations Security Council, President of the United Nations Security Council. She served in the government of Guinea as Minister of Social Affairs from 1976 until the 1984 Lansana Conté#1984 coup and military rule, military coup. Early life and education Martin Cissé was born in Kankan, Guinea, on 6 April 1926, the eldest of seven children. Her father (Darricau Martin Cissé), Postes, télégraphes et téléphones (France), P.T.T. employee for French colonial administration, was Malinke with Soninke people, Soninke origins (from her paternal grandmother) and her mother (Damaye Soumah), midwife, Soussou. She attended the École normal de Rufisque, École Normale de Rufisque in Dakar, Senegal, where she trained to become a teacher. Career Martin Cissé was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
