Andrée Touré

[1][2][3] Born in 1934 in Kankan, Andrée Touré is the daughter of the French physician Paul-Marie Duplantier and Kaïssa Kourouma, a Maninka.

[4] After her father left the country at the outbreak of the Second World War, Andrée was raised by the family of her uncle, Mory Sinkoun Kaba.

[2] When Guinea gained independence in October 1958 and Sékou Touré became president, Andrée performed her role as First Lady with exemplary support for her husband.

She was always at his side at key meetings with world leaders, including John F. Kennedy, in Washington, Habib Bourguiba in Tunis, Mao Zedong in Beijing and Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow.

[2] After her husband died following an unsuccessful heart operation on 26 March 1984, Andrée Touré was arrested and her property confiscated.