Celeste Vatatono Cossa was a Mozambican politician. In 1977 she was one of the first group of women elected to the People's Assembly.
Celeste Cossa | |
|---|---|
| Member of the People's Assembly | |
| In office 1977– | |
| Constituency | Gaza |
Biography
editOriginally 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
edit- ^ 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