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Rafiatou Karimou Quotes

1946–2018

Rafiatou Karimou (2 May 1946 – 4 January 2018) was a Beninese politician and teacher by profession. Karimou was the first female to be appointed to the position of a minister in her country.

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When you're a woman, you shouldn't enter politics to applaud, nor cook at large gatherings or meetings and the like.

Today as yesterday, and we hope, tomorrow, Refamp will fight for the advancement of all women in Benin and elsewhere...

Women shun politics these days.

By welcoming you today, we reaffirm our desire to make your voice heard and to give you all the space you deserve within our party because you constitute a force in the Republic.

On behalf of the Federation of Dynamic Women of Benin, I solemnly declare my membership and that of the 99 women's groups I lead in the Republican Bloc.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rafiatou Karimou (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.