Baréma Bocoum

Baréma Bocoum (1 January 1914 – 3 March 1973) was a Malian politician and diplomat.

Bocoum graduated from the École normale supérieure William Ponty in 1936.

[1] Simultaneously, Bocoum served as a deputy for French Sudan in the National Assembly of France from 1956 to 1958, where he represented the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance.

[3] After Mali gained independence from France in 1960, Bocoum was elected to the country's National Assembly, representing the Sudanese Union – African Democratic Rally (US-RDA).

Initially an ally of President Modibo Keïta, he was criticized as bourgeois and an anti-socialist by the latter in 1967, and removed from his political offices early the following year.