Celeste Vatatono Cossa was a Mozambican politician. In 1977 she was one of the first group of women elected to the People's Assembly.
Biography Originally from Chibuto, Cossa worked in the cotton growing sector, which had been forced upon areas of the country by the Portuguese authorities.Allen Isaacman (1992) "Paternalism and the Labour Process: The Mozambican Cotton Regime 1938-1961" Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 18, number 3, pp487–526 She was a FRELIMO candidate in the 1977 parliamentary elections,Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa issues 1857–1867, p42 in which she was one of the first group of 27 women elected to the People's Assembly.Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p267
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