Aminata Touré
Mayor of Kaloum
In office
4 February 2018 – 12 January 2022
Personal details
Born(1952-12-12)12 December 1952
Conakry, French Guinea, French West Africa, France
Died12 January 2022(2022-01-12) (aged 69)
Morocco
NationalityGuinean
Political partyPDG
Kaloum Yigui

Aminata Touré (12 December 1952 – 12 January 2022) was a Guinean politician.[1] She served as mayor of Kaloum from 2018 until her death in 2022.

Life and career

Aminata was the daughter of former President Ahmed Sékou Touré and his wife, Marguéritte Colle.[2] She attended school in Conakry with her brother, Mohamed. After the 1984 Guinean coup d'état 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.[3]

Early in her life, Touré was an activist within her father's party, the Democratic Party of Guinea. 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,[4] receiving a unanimous vote from each of the commune's 29 councilors.[5][6] The governor of the Conakry Region, Mathurin Bangoura, launched a massive sanitation campaign.[7] Touré's administration benefited from the campaign and aided a successful garbage collection drive.[8] Her victory was seen as a blow to Guinea's ruling party, the Rally of the Guinean People, in the strategic commune in the Conakry Region.[9]

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".[10][11] She was outspoken about the misdeeds of France throughout the colonial regime of French Guinea and the French Republic's actions during the African nation's drive for independence.[12]

She died in Morocco following a long illness, on 12 January 2022, at the age of 69.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "URGENT : Aminata Touré, mairesse de Kaloum est morte". Ledjely.com (in French). 12 January 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  2. ↑ Aissatou, Bah (8 March 2019). "Aminata Touré : « mon parcours et mes ambitions… »". Africa Guinee (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Freland, François-Xavier (2 March 2018). "Guinée : la fille de Sékou Touré entre en politique". Jeune Afrique (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  4. ↑ "Guinée : Aminata Touré, la fille de Sékou Touré, élue maire de Kaloum, suivie du RPG-AEC". Guineematin.com (in French). 16 November 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  5. ↑ "Elections des maires : Aminata Touré plébiscitée Maire de Kaloum". GOOGA224 (in French). 15 November 2021. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  6. ↑ Sanoah, Sekou (16 November 2018). "Kaloum: les premiers mots de Aminata Touré, la nouvelle maire". Guinéenews (in French). Kaloum. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  7. ↑ "Assainissement de Conakry : Général Mathurin Bangoura installe des poubelles à Kaloum". GuineeLIVE (in French). 29 November 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "Ordures à Conakry: la solution d'Aminata Touré..." Africaguinee.com (in French). 17 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "Victoire d'Aminata Touré : Une réhabilitation d'Ahmed Sekou Touré ? (Par Naïny Bérété)". Guinee7.com (in French). 9 February 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  10. ↑ "An 34 de la mort de Sékou Touré : Mohamed et Aminata Touré se souviennent". Guineematin.com (in French). 26 March 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  11. ↑ "Aminata Touré, fille ainée de Sékou Touré : « Mon papa était le père de tous les guinéens… » (Interview)". Africaguinee.com (in French). 29 December 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  12. ↑ "Aminata Touré : « La France devrait présenter des excuses à la Guinée… »". Africaguinee.com (in French). Conakry. 8 May 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  13. ↑ Boubacar, Elhadj (13 January 2022). "Guinée: décès d'Aminata Touré maire de Kaloum". Guiné360 (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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