Saliou Coumbassa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Guinean politician (1932-2003)
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About Saliou Coumbassa
- Saliou Coumbassa (2 February 1932, in Baralandé – 30 September 2003) was a Guinean politician and educator.
- He was admitted to Van Wollenhoven school in Dakar in 1949, where he obtained two bachelor's degrees, before entering the École normale supérieure William Ponty in Senegal, where he became a teacher certified in elementary education.
- After military service, he returned to Guinea in 1957 and first taught at Kindia Wassou application school, where he was a colleague of poet and writer David Diop.
- In Kindia, he further taught at the Friguiagbé elementary school, where for a time he was the director. In 1960 he received a scholarship to study at the Faculty of Humanities of Bordeaux in France and obtained a degree.
- He then returned to Guinea in 1963, and resumed a teacher, teaching French.
- In 1964, he was appointed headmaster of Donka grammar school, and the following year he became inspector of schools in Kankan, the capital of Upper Guinea region, then Labé in Middle Guinea.
- In 1969 he was appointed inspector general of education at the Ministry of Education, and the following year President Ahmed Sékou Touré appointed him Secretary of State for Justice, a position where he succeeded Mohamed Kassory Bangoura.
- He was arrested in 1971, and spent nine years, six months and seventeen days in Camp Boiro.
- Released from prison in 1981, he stayed away from public life until 1984, after the death Touré and the assumption of power by the military.
- In June 1984, he was one of the initiators of the project to overhaul and redevelopment of the Guinean education system.
- He was then UN Ambassador to Guinea from 1985 to 1987, and on 22 December 1985 the President of the Republic, General Lansana Conte, appointed him national education minister.
- In a cabinet reshuffle in February 1990, he became Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, until February 1991.
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