Joseph Ouédraogo
Joseph Ouédraogo (11 January 1919 – 1988) was a Burkinabè trade unionist and politician, active during the last years of the French Upper Volta and subsequently in the Republic of Upper Volta.
Biography
Joseph Ouédraogo was born on 11 January 1919 in Saaba, French West Africa. From 1929 to 1933 he received his primary education at the Catholic Mission School of Ouagadougou and before undertaking Secondary studies at the Pabré Undergraduate Seminary from 1933 to 1939.[1]
Ouédraogo became a Catholic labor activist and was a member of the
Ouëzzin Coulibaly. Ouédraogo was selected to be a member of the Senate of the French Community. He was mayor of Ouagadougou from 1956 to 1959.[3] He was Minister of Finance, 1957–58 and Minister of the Interior, 1958–59. In August 1959 Maurice Yaméogo
forced Ouédraogo out of office as mayor of Ouagadougou, and after Yaméogo became President in 1960 Ouédraogo was interned for a while. Ouédraogo was a leader of the syndicalist general strike and 1966 military coup against Yaméogo.
In 1970 Ouédraogo became Secretary-General of the
Union démocratique voltaïque (UDV): an agreement that Gérard would serve as prime minister and Joseph as president of the National Assembly broke down in 1974, and in February 1974 the army stepped in to suspend the 1970 constitution and restore military rule.[4]
Joseph Ouédraogo gained 16.6% in the first round of the
Citations
- ^ Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa 1978, p. 146.
- ^ Kourita Sandwidi, 'Syndicalisme et pouvoir politique. De la répression a la renaissance', in René Otayek et al., Le Burkina entre révolution et démocratie, 1983-1993, pp. 352-352, p. 327
- ^ Site web de la Mairie de Ouagadougou Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ McFarland 1978, pp. 124–125.
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut, Elections in Africa: a data handbook, 1999, p. 146
- ^ Rupley, Bangali & Diamitani 2013, p. 160.
References
- McFarland, Daniel Miles (1978). Historical Dictionary of Upper Volta (Haute Volta). Metuchen: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810810884.
- Rupley, Lawrence; Bangali, Lamissa; Diamitani, Boureima (2013). Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso (revised ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810867703.
- Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa. Vol. 1942–1946 (7–13 June 1978 ed.). Arlington: OCLC 2370729.
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