Aminata traore biography
Aminata Dramane Traoré (born ) is a Malian author, politician, and political activist..
Aminata Dramane Traoré is a Malian author, politician, and political activist.
"In order to help Africa, it must first be understood."
Aminata Dramane Traoré is a Malian politician and writer who was born in Bamako in 1948.
She experienced the arrival of independence, followed by socialism, dictatorship, the single party, corruption, and democracy. She studied in France at the University of Caen, where she earned a doctorate in Social Psychology and obtained a Psychopathology degree.
A researcher of Social Sciences, she worked at the University of Abdijan (Ivory Coast), and she currently collaborates with several national and international organisations.
She was Mali´s Minister of Culture and Tourism between 1997 and 2000, a position that she resigned from "in order to maintain her freedom of speech." In July 2005, she was chosen to form part of the Board of Directors for the International Press Service.
That same year, she presided over the Organisation Commission for the World Social Forum in Bamako.
She received the Prince Claus Cultural Award (Net
