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Aoua Kéita

Died in 1980

Aoua Kéita was born in Bamako in 1912; her father, Karamoko Kéita, a former soldier from Kouroussa, worked in the colonial hygiene service according to another source. She entered the first girls' school in Bamako in 1923 and graduated from the medical school in Dakar in 1931; she worked as a midwife in Gao, Tougan, the Office du Niger, Nara and Kati. A party activist from 1946, she founded a union of salaried women in 1957, became in 1958 the only woman on the political bureau and was elected a deputy in 1959. She died in Bamako on 7 May 1980.

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