Celeste Cossa
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Celeste Cossa | |
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Member of the People's Assembly | |
In office 1977– | |
Constituency | Gaza |
Celeste Vatatono Cossa was a Mozambican politician. In 1977 she was one of the first group of women elected to the People's Assembly.
Biography
Originally from Chibuto, Cossa worked in the cotton growing sector, which had been forced upon areas of the country by the Portuguese authorities.[1] She was a FRELIMO candidate in the 1977 parliamentary elections,[2] in which she was one of the first group of 27 women elected to the People's Assembly.[3]
References
- ^ Allen Isaacman (1992) "Paternalism and the Labour Process: The Mozambican Cotton Regime 1938-1961" Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 18, number 3, pp487–526
- ^ Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa issues 1857–1867, p42
- ^ Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p267