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Aoua Keita and the Nascent Women’s Movement in the French Soudan
Author(s)Turrittin, Jane
AbstractProvides a biographical analysis of one of the early female nationalists in Mali, Aoua Keita, based on her autobiography, Femme d’Afrique, published shortly before her death in 1979. Keita was born into a Westernized family in 1912. She trained as a midwife and began working for the colonial health service in 1932. With her husband, a physician, she became an organizer for the nationalist movement, Rassemblement Démocratique Africain. Combining both feminist and nationalist causes she was the leading female political figure in Mali until the revolution of 1968 forced her into exile.
IssueNo1
Pages59-89
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceAfrican Studies Review
VolumeNo36
PubDateApril1993
ISBN_ISSN0002-0206
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