- Adama Samassékou
Adama Samassékou from
Mali is the current president, with ministerial rank, of theAfrican Academy of Languages . Born in 1946 in Mali, he served between July 2002 and December 2003 as the President of the PrepCom of the Geneva phase of the [http://www.itu.int/wsis/ World Summit on the Information Society] (WSIS). Previously, he was Malian Minister of Education (1993-2000) and former spokesperson for the Government of Mali (1997-2000). Since 2003, he is a member of the [http://www.francophonie.org/oif/hcf.cfm Haut Conseil de la Francophonie] .Playing an active role in community life, Mr. Samassékou is the founding President, for Mali and Africa as a whole, of the Peoples' Movement for Human Rights Education, in association with [http://www.pdhre.org PDHRE] , and since 21st October 2005, President of the International Federation of
ICVolunteers . In the political sphere, he was the founding Chairman of ADEMA-France.He was Head of the Linguistic Department of the Institute of Human Sciences of Mali, then Director of the National Library of Mali and Adviser to the Minister in charge of Culture.
He speaks Bamanan (Bambara), Songay (Songhay), Fulfulde (Peul), French, Russian and English.
External links
* [http://www.salzburgseminar.org/2005faculty.cfm?IDEvent=829&IDBBS_People=115934 salzburgseminar.org] short bio
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