[2] Now an orphan, Yagbao and her older sister, Ginette Geneviève Yasse, were raised by her uncle, Paul Raphaël Ounda, and aunt, Bangalo.
[2] Following high school, the French governor sent Yagbao and her cousin, Marthe Matongo, to France to study to become teachers.
[2] Matongo, who was one year older than Yagbao, would later become the first woman elected to the National Assembly of the Central African Republic on 15 March 1964.
[1] They had one son, Bruno Dacko, born on 2 November 1952, who became a Central African politician and former Minister of Tourism.
[2] She reportedly became a close friend of Jacqueline Nguyen Thi Than, a Vietnamese immigrant and one of the wives of Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who would overthrow President Dacko in 1965.