Aminata Touré (12 December 1952 – 12 January 2022) was a Guinean politician. She served as mayor of

Kaloum Kaloum is an urban sub-prefecture in the Conakry Region of Guinea and one of five in the capital Conakry. Kaloum includes the city centre of Conakry. As of 2014 it had a population of 62,675 people. The seat of Government is located in Kaloum ...

from 2018 until her death in 2022.

Life and career

Aminata was the daughter of former

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Ahmed Sékou Touré Ahmed Sékou Touré (var. Sheku Turay or Ture; N'Ko: ; 9 January 1922 – 26 March 1984) was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who was the first president of Guinea from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary ...

and his wife, Marguéritte Colle. She attended school in

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with her brother, Mohamed. After the

1984 Guinean coup d'état The 1984 Guinean coup d'état was the bloodless military coup that took place in Guinea on 3 April 1984, led by Colonel Lansana Conté. It led to the deposition of Prime Minister Louis Lansana Beavogui, who had held the office since 1972, and ha ...

and her father's death, she sought refuge in Morocco and worked as an entrepreneur. In 2018, she relaunched herself into politics with the party Kaloum Yigui. Early in her life, Touré was an activist within her father's party, the

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. However, she moved away from political life while in exile in Morocco. Upon her return, she founded the party Kaloum Yigui. She was elected mayor of Kaloum on 4 February 2018, receiving a unanimous vote from each of the commune's 29 councilors. The governor of the Conakry Region, Mathurin Bangoura, launched a massive sanitation campaign. Touré's administration benefited from the campaign and aided a successful garbage collection drive. Her victory was seen as a blow to Guinea's ruling party, the

Rally of the Guinean People The Rally of the Guinean People (, sometimes translated as ''Guinean People's Assembly''; RPG) is a political party in Guinea. The RPG was the ruling party in the country from 2010 to 2021 and was recently led by Alpha Condé. It is mainly base ...

, in the strategic commune in the Conakry Region. Touré was a strong advocate for the ideals of her father, saying that "President Ahmed Sékou Touré was the father of all Guinean youth. It is true that we are his children but he considered all Guinean youth as his children. So the priority was not us, but the priority was all the young people of Guinea. He was an affable father, an understanding father who listened to his children and who, as usual, listened to everyone". She was outspoken about the misdeeds of France throughout the colonial regime of

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and the French Republic's actions during the African nation's drive for independence. She died in Morocco following a long illness, on 12 January 2022, at the age of 69.

References

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