Aminata Dramane Traoré

Aminata Dramane Traoré was born in 1947 in Bamako, into a modest family of twelve children. She holds a doctorate in social psychology from the University of Caen, taught at the institute of ethnosociology of the University of Abidjan from 1975 to 1988, then worked from 1988 to 1992 on a regional United Nations programme on water and sanitation. Minister of Culture and Tourism of Mali from 1997 to 2000, she then coordinated the Forum for Another Mali and in 2005 signed the Porto Alegre manifesto.

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• EssayL'ÉtauAminata Dramane Traoré · 1999not translated into EnglishLiterature