Women who led
Aïcha Bogoreh Darrar
Aïcha Bogoreh Darrar (1928 to 5 August 2001) was a Djiboutian independence and women's rights activist and the first First Lady of Djibouti. Born in Dikhil, she rallied women to vote for independence and led the National Union of Djiboutian Women from 1977 to 1999.
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- Lived
- 1928 to 2001-08-05
- Known as one of
- Women who led
- Era
- Toward independence, 1920 to 1960; The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012
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Who was she?
Aïcha Bogoreh Darrar was a Djiboutian independence and women's rights activist and the first First Lady of Djibouti (Wikipedia). She was born in 1928 in Dikhil, then part of French Somaliland, into a family of railway workers (same source). See Somalis in Djibouti.
Independence work
She married Hassan Gouled Aptidon, a nurse who became Djibouti's first president (Wikipedia). She organised women to vote for independence and for his political career, and became First Lady when Djibouti became independent in 1977 (same source).
Women's union
She headed the first National Union of Djiboutian Women (UNFD) from 1977 to 1999; it ran literacy and vocational classes for women (Wikipedia). She also founded the Aïcha Bogoreh Mother and Child Centre for orphaned children (same source). She died in Addis Ababa on 5 August 2001 (same source).
In short
A Dikhil-born activist who brought women into Djibouti's independence vote and led its women's union for over twenty years.
Sources
- Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Aïcha Bogoreh DarrarAicha Bogoreh · Aïcha Bogoreh
- Lived
- 1928 to 2001-08-05
- Known as one of
- Women who led
- Era
- Toward independence, 1920 to 1960; The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012
- Sources
- 1 sources
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