Gisèle Rabesahala

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Marie Gisèle Aimée Rabesahala (7 May 1929 – 27 June 2011) was a Malagasy politician and activist who was the first woman to hold a ministerial position in the government of Madagascar. She entered politics at the age of 17, campaigning on behalf of political prisoners, and becoming Madagascar's first woman municipal councilor, before becoming the first Malagasy woman to establish and lead a political party. She was a committed Marxist and co-founded the communist Congress Party for the Independence of Madagascar, which took power in 1975. In 1977, she became Madagascar's first female minister, responsible for promoting revolutionary art and culture, but lost her job in 1991 when her ministry was abolished in the course of Madagascar's return to multi-party democracy. She remained an active political campaigner and journalist until her death in 2011.

Quotes

I dreamed of being a lawyer, because I thought that a lawyer must devote himself to the defense of the innocent
If we don’t know where we come from, we don’t know where we are going.
- Gisèle Rabesahala: Visionary and A Human Rights Lawyer,November 9, 2018,By Editorial Team
I promoted the idea that the development of society would be sufficient to transform the situation of women (…) I came to realize that this was a serious error, and that the starting point for women’s development was their education
- Gisèle Rabesahala,NOVEMBER 9, 2020,Posted by sofiapela