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Micheline Golengo

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Micheline Golengo
Member of the National Assembly
In office
1963–
ConstituencyBrazzaville
Member of the Senate
In office
–2009
ConstituencyCuvette-Ouest
Personal details
Born13 September 1940
Brazzaville, Moyen-Congo
Died13 February 2009(2009-02-13) (aged 68)
Choisy-le-Roi, France

Micheline Golengo (13 September 1940 – 13 February 2009) was a Congolese politician. In 1963 she was one of the first group of three women elected to the National Assembly alongside Pierrette Kombo and Mambou Aimée Gnali.

Biography

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Golengo was born in Brazzaville in 1940.[1] Initially a primary school teacher, she entered the diplomatic service in 1960.[1] She and her sister Victoire were the first two Congolese women parachutists.[2]

Golengo joined the National Movement of the Revolution (MNR) and was a candidate for the party in the 1963 parliamentary elections. With no opposition contesting the elections, she was elected to the National Assembly from the Brazzaville constituency,[3] becoming one of the first group of three women to enter parliament.[4] After joining the Congolese Party of Labour, the successor to the MNR, she later served as a Senator for Cuvette-Ouest.

She died in Choisy-le-Roi in France in February 2009.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Regard sur les cinquante dernières années 1965-2015 2009 (62) Adiac Congo, 16 March 2017
  2. ^ Afrique, volumes 36–41, p48
  3. ^ Robert Edmond Ziavoula (2006) Brazzaville, une ville à reconstruire: recompositions citadines p86
  4. ^ Le regard de Mambou Aimée Gnali sur le livre de Martin Mbéri La Semaine Africaine, 20 December 2011