Amadou Bâ (11 December 1892 – 6 March 1967), also known as Doudou Ba, was a Senegalese politician, adjunct to the mayor of Dakar and minister.
Biography In the 1920s, Amadou Bâ was the secretary of the writer Massyla Diop, who was the founding-editor of the journals Le Sénégal moderne (Modern Senegal) and Revue africaine littéraire et artistique (African Literary and Artistic Review), with Marcel Sableau.Birago Diop, Sénégal du temps de Mémoires africaines, Éditions L'Harmattan, 1986, p. 37.
On 17 August 1946, Bâ founded an ephemeral political party, the African Autonomist Movement (MAA) in Dakar.Hélène d'Almeida-Topor, Les jeunes en Afrique, vol. 2, L'Harmattan, 1992, p. 59, .
When and Mamadou Dia were president and vice-president of the Council of Government of the Territory of Senegal, Bâ was named minister of health and population in the government of 20 May 1957, but he resigned on 16 June 1958 and was replaced by .Gouvernements du Sénégal de 1957 à 2007 (Site Équité et égalité de genre au Sénégal, Laboratoire GENRE Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar) sengenre-ucad.org
He was the father of the writer Mariama Bâ and magistrate Mody Bâ.
References
Bibliography Babacar Ndiaye and Waly Ndiaye, Présidents et ministres de la République du Sénégal, Dakar, 2006 (2nd edn), p. 51.
External links (website of the Ministry of Health and Prevention)