Youssouf Sambo Bâ (born May 10, 1942 in
Boborgou,
Niger
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) is a
Burkinabé politician and retired teacher. He is the President of the
Party for Democracy and Socialism
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.
Bâ was headmaster of ''Collège d'Enseignement Général'' in
Bobo-Dioulasso
Bobo-Dioulasso ( , ) is a city in Burkina Faso with a population of 1,129,000 (); it is the second-largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. The name means "home of the Bobo- Dioula".
The local Bobo-speaking pop ...
from 1974 to 1977.
On January 7, 1983 Bâ was named Cabinet Director of the Ministry of National Education, Arts and Culture, by the ruling CSP junta.
Sambo Bâ was elected to the
National Assembly
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in the
May 2007 parliamentary election as a candidate on the PDS national list. He was one of only two PDS candidates to win a seat.
References
Members of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso
Party for Democracy and Socialism politicians
Living people
1942 births
Immigrants to Burkina Faso
Nigerien emigrants
21st-century Burkinabe politicians
20th-century Burkinabe people
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