Background and career
Hortense Aka-Anghui (December 18, 1933 – September 30, 2017) was an Ivorian politician.
Born Hortense Dadié in Agboville, Aka-Anghui was the sister of Bernard Dadié.
She was elected to the National Assembly as a member of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire – African Democratic Rally in 1965, later serving as vice-president of the Assembly and remaining a member until 1990. With Gladys Anoma and Jeanne Gervais, she was one of the first women elected to that body.
From 1980 to 2017, she served as mayor of Port-Bouët. She also served as the Minister for Women's Affairs from 1986 to 1990, and from 1984 until 1991 as president of the Association des Femmes Ivoiriennes. She also served as a member of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of her political party.
Aka-Anghui trained, as a pharmacist, earning a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1961, and operated a pharmacy and medical laboratory in Treichville, in which town she had been raised, prior to entering politics.
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