Raphaël Mapou (born 9 October 1955 as part of the Unia Tribe in Yaté) is a

New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

separatist Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, regional, governmental, or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seekin ...

and

Kanak The Kanaks ( French spelling until 1984: Canaque) are the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific. Kanak peoples traditionally speak diverse Austronesian languages that ...

politician. He is the former spokesperson for the

Kanak Liberation Party The Party of Kanak Liberation (, Palika) is a socialist pro-independence political party in New Caledonia. It is a component of the National Union for Independence, which in turn is one of the two components of the Kanak Socialist National Lib ...

from 1989 to 1998 and was the mayor of Yaté from 1990 to 1995. Mapou was a founding member of the Federation of Pro-Independence Co-operation Committees (FCCI) from 1998 to 2002 and with the FCCI he participated in the second government of New Caledonia that resulted from the

Nouméa Accord The Nouméa Accord () of 1998 is a promise by the French Republic to grant increased political power to New Caledonia and its indigenous population, the Kanaks, over a twenty-year transition period. It was signed 5 May 1998 by Lionel Jospin, ...

, chaired by Pierre Frogier, from October 17, 2001, to July 29, 2002. He has been the general secretary of the Comité Rhéébù Nùù since its creation in 2001. Mapou gained his PhD from the University of New Caledonia in 2018; the title of his thesis was ''"Dialectical analysis of the transformations of law in New Caledonia: the republican colonial state in the face of Kanak legal institutions" ''. Legitimus website, ''Raphaël Mapou defends his doctoral thesis''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mapou, Raphael 1955 births Living people Kanak people Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front politicians Separatists People from South Province, New Caledonia