Danièle Obono (French pronunciation: [danjɛl ɔbɔno]; born 12 July 1980)[1] is a left-wing[2] Gabonese-French politician who has represented the Paris's 17th constituency in the National Assembly since 2017.

[5] She is the daughter of Hortense Simbou Mbadinga, a secretary at Air Gabon; and Martin Edzodzomo-Ela, an economist who was a senior executive at the Paribas-Gabon bank from 1975 to 1979 before he was dismissed for his opposition to the regime of Omar Bongo,[6] who was also a candidate in the Gabonese presidential election of 1998.

[10] In 2002, she obtained a master's degree in history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, studying the economic relationship between France and Gabon during the second half of the 20th century under the supervision of Jacques Marseille [fr].

[17] She coordinated, with the agro-economist Laurent Levard, the collective "Livrets de La France insoumise", a programmatic complement to L’Avenir en commun,[18] one of the issues of which she co-wrote with the philosopher Benoît Schneckenburger, entitled Against Racism and discrimination: Bringing equality to life.

[20] During the 2022 French legislative election campaign, she was criticized for appearing with Danielle Simonnet in the company of British MP Jeremy Corbyn and accused of complacency with anti-Semitism.

Secretary of the National Assembly's European Affairs Committee, Danièle Obono was ranked as the 6th most active MP by the business magazine Capital[25] after six months in office.

Shortly after her election, Danièle Obono declared herself to be an alterglobalist, afrofeminist (Black feminism), anti-imperialist, anti-racist,[26] anti-liberal,[27] anti-Islamophobe and pan-Africanist.

[37] In June 2021, she lent her support to the local residents of the Jardin d’Eole, who organised a demonstration every Wednesday to denounce the situation in the neighbourhood because of the insecurity created by the presence of drug addicts.

The petition denounced the indictment of Saïdou, lead singer of the group « Zone d'expression populaire » (ZEP, eng: area of people’s speech), and sociologist Saïd Bouamama following a complaint from the far-right association AGRIF, which criticised the use of the expression "Nique la France" in a 2010 song.

"[41] Political scientist Laurent Bouvet and Valeurs actuelles portrayed her as being close to another signatory, Houria Bouteldja, a member of the Indigènes de la République, which she disputes.

[44] LFI MP Éric Coquerel expressed surprise that the question had been put specifically to her, because of her skin colour,[45] and not to others who had signed the petition five years earlier, such as Clémentine Autain, Noël Mamère and Eva Joly, but also artists Rachid Taha, Zebda and Siné, trade unionists Élie Domota and Xavier Mathieu and journalist Rokhaya Diallo.

[49] On Europe 1, Valls attributed the following comments to Obono: "the text she wrote after the attacks of January 2015 (...) when she says that she rather cried for Dieudonné and not for Charlie's victims".

Her statement was taken up by AFP, immediately recalling that she had been "accused of Islamo-leftist drift by Manuel Valls" and observing that she refers "to the numerous press releases from the Human Rights League" for whom the ban on Dieudonné's shows constitutes "a serious setback to the rule of law, which allows this person to present himself as a victim".

[51] Following the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack, Obono was at the centre of a controversy after she stated she would "not cry", deeming the weekly newspaper's cartoons "racist".