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Adama Touré (SONABEL trade unionist)

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Adama Touré
human
Ein sex anaa gendermale Edit
Ein country of citizenshipBurkina Faso Edit
Name wey dem give amAdama Edit
Family nameToure Edit
Languages edey speak, rep anaa signFrench Edit
Ein occupationtrade unionist, politician Edit
EmployerSociété Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso, Trade Union Confederation of Burkina Edit
Political party ein memberPatriotic League for Development, African Independence Party Edit

Adama Touré be a Burkinabé trade unionist. He work has an agent at Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso (SONABEL).[1] As of de 1980s, he be de Secretary of de Trade Union of Technicians den Workers of Burkina (STOB, Syndicat des travailleurs et ouvriers du Burkina) den Secretary for External Relations for de Burkinabé Trade Union Confederation (CSB).[2][3][4][5] He be a leader of de Patriotic League for Development (LIPAD) den a member of the Central Executive Bureau of the African Independence Party (PAI).[6][7]

After de rift between LIPAD and de militaries insyd August 1984, dem dismissToure from public service for 'defamation of de CNR' (National Revolutionary Council). Insyd October 1984 Toure be arrested. He was released from detention on 3 February 1986, along plus de PAI general secretary Adama Touré.[8]

Dem arrest him on 1 June 1987, as de CNR be cracking down on LIPAD-PAI.[9]

He be de younger brother of CSB leader Soumane Touré.[8][10]

References

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  1. Afrique contemporaine (in French). Documentation française. 1985.
  2. Unité: organe de liaison et de lutte de la C.S.B.. Confédération syndicale burkinabe, 1988. p. 13
  3. Bruno Jaffré. Burkina Faso, les années Sankara: de la Révolution à la rectification. L'Harmattan, 1989. p. 244
  4. Africa Report, Vol. 32. African-American Institute, 1987. p. 13
  5. Ludo Martens, Hilde Meesters. Sankara, Compaoré et la révolution burkinabè. Editions Aden, 1989. p. 30
  6. Année africaine (in French). Éditions A. Pedone. 1988.
  7. Touré, Adama Abdoulaye (2001). Une vie de militant: ma lutte du collège à la révolution de Thomas Sankara (in French). Hamaria. ISBN 978-2-913352-09-4.
  8. 1 2 Afrique nouvelle (in French). 1986.
  9. Genova, James (2022-11-01). Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983–1987 (in English). MSU Press. ISBN 978-1-62895-477-7.
  10. "Libération de M. Soumane Touré" (in French). 1986-10-06. Retrieved 2025-07-12.