Jeanne Martin CISSÉ An author from Guinea writing in French [Return to French — Page originale en français]

Born in 1926 in Guinea, Jeanne Martin Cissé attended Dakar's Teachers College in the early 1940s. She joined the African Democratic Rally at the end of the same decade and became a staunch ally of Sékou Touré. Jeanne Martin Cissé was the first woman to chair the UN Security Council. (Autobiography and Présence Africaine, 2010)

Publications

La fille du Milo. Paris: Présence Africaine, 2009. (200p.). ISBN 978-2-7087-0802-0. [Préface by Abdou Diouf]. Autobiography.

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The University of Western Australia/French
Created: 10 May 2010
Archived: 28 November 2013
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