Isabelle Ebanda
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|name = Isabelle Ebanda
|image =IsabelleEbanda33.jpg
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1936|02|23}}
|birth_place = Douala, Cameroon
|office = Member of the National Assembly of Cameroon
|term_start = 1970
|term_end = 1988
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Isabelle Ebanda (born 23 February 1936) is a Cameroonian politician.
Early life and education
Career
Ebanda began teaching at the Mbanga public school in 1958, then moved to the Lycée des jeans filled de New-Bell in Douala in 1970.
Ebanda joined the Cameroonian Union in 1959 and was a delegate at the party's departmental office in Wouri. When the single party Cameroonian National Union was created in 1966, she became president of its Women's Organisation.{{cite web| url=http://repository.uneca.org/bitstream/handle/123456789/17536/Bib-67593.pdf| publisher=United Nations Economic and Social Council| title=Report of the Third Meeting of the Africa Regional Co-ordinating Committee for the Integration of Women in Development| date=March 1982| place=Douala| access-date=22 February 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824065734/http://repository.uneca.org/bitstream/handle/123456789/17536/Bib-67593.pdf| archive-date=24 August 2018| url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNAAF594.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222200203/http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNAAF594.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 February 2017|title=African women small entrepreneurs in Senegal, the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Cameroon and Malawi; pre-feasibility study for providing assistance|author=National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs|year=1977}}
Ebanda was elected as a member of the National Assembly for Wouri in 1970. She was the first woman deputy in the province of Littoral.{{cn|date=November 2019}} In 1974, she became a member of the parliamentary committees for finance, constitutional law, education and social affairs. She left the National Assembly in 1988.
In 1988, Ebanda was appointed an Officer in the Europe Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was later promoted to Head of Central and Eastern Europe. In 2002, she was appointed president of the National Elections Observatory in Douala.
In 2013, Ebanda was the special guest at a ceremony for reconciliation in Wouri.{{cite web|url=http://www.cameroon-info.net/article/cameroun-reconciliation-dans-le-rdpc-seance-de-vaudou-a-wouri-centre-200796.html|language=French|title=Cameroun – Réconciliation dans le RDPC: Séance de vaudou a Wouri-centre|date=25 September 2013|work=Cameroon Info Net|accessdate=22 February 2017}}
Awards and honours
- Order of Merit for Noble Acts for the Preservation of Peace and Concord in Cameroon, 2000
References
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Category:20th-century Cameroonian women politicians
Category:20th-century Cameroonian politicians
Category:Members of the National Assembly (Cameroon)
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