Gérard Kango Ouédraogo
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Prime Minister of Upper Volta | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 13 February 1971 – 8 February 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Sangoulé Lamizana | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 19 September 1925 Prime Minister of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 13 February 1971 to 8 February 1974.[1] He was subsequently President of the National Assembly of Upper Volta from October 1978 to November 25, 1980.[2]
OverviewGérard Ouédraogo was born in Alliance for Democracy and Federation–African Democratic Rally (ADF/ADR), which is led by his son, Gilbert Noël Ouédraogo.[6][7] Ouédraogo died on 1 July 2014.[8]
BiographyGérard Ouédraogo was born on September 19, 1925, in Naba Kango Cave, Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso. The name Kango originally came from Kaongo, meaning "the field that surrounds a palace or a concession." He was a student of the Terrason de Fougères Modern School on Bamako.[9] Subsequently, he continued to play an important role in the political life of the country, notably by sitting in the Voltaic Democratic Union (VDU), member of the African Democratic Rally. He was the Prime Minister of Upper Volta from 1971 to 1974, under the presidency of Sangoulé Lamizana .
The political route of Ouédraogo began on 2 January 1956 with him in an election as a member of the deputies. He was the president of the National Assembly of Upper Volta from 1978 until 1980.[9]
 Ouédraogo was the founding president of several political movements, including the Voltaic Democratic Union and African Democratic Rally, and a member of the African Democratic Rally (ADR), he had become a member of the Upper Volta in the Fourth Republic, and in the first National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. He was the ambassador of the new independent state of Upper Volta in Britain from 1960 to 1966. The honorary president of the parties was also a city councilor of the city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso .
In favor of the 1991 democratic opening of deputy in May 1992 and reelected in May 1997. On 23 September 1997, he resigned voluntarily from the National Assembly. One of the founding fathers of the African Democratic Rally in Upper Volta was named Honorary President during the merger of the Alliance for Democracy and Federation and the African Democratic Rally . After all of his achievements, he retired from political life.
While seated as the President of the National Assembly during the coup d'état of Saye Zerbo on November 25, 1980, he was imprisoned several times under the dictatorships of Saye Zerbo, Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré . Since the easing of the regime, headed by the head of state in the early 1990s, he was elected twice under the Fourth Republic, and resigned on 27 May 1998. He died on 1 July 2014 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at the age of 88. References
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