Cheikh Hamidou Kane Mathiara

Not to be confused with Cheikh Hamidou Kane.
Cheikh Hamidou Kane Mathiara
Minister of the Armed Forces
In office
15 March 1995 – 2000
Prime Minister Habib Thiam; Mamadou Lamine Loum
Preceded by Madieng Khary Dieng
Succeeded by Youba Sambou
Member of the National Assembly of Senegal
In office
2001–2007
Personal details
Born 18 December 1939
Dagana
Died May 15, 2009(2009-05-15) (aged 69)
Dakar
Resting place Yoff
Citizenship Senegal
Nationality Senegalese
Political party Socialist Party; Alliance of the Forces of Progress
Profession economist
Religion Islam

Cheikh Hamidou Kane, nicknamed "Mathaira,"[1] (18 December 1939[2] - 15 May 2009) was an economist and Senegalese politician, who was a member of the Socialist Party (PS) and then of the Alliance of the Forces of Progress (AFP) and served as a government minister several times during Abdou Diouf's presidency.

Biography

Of Futa origin, Cheikh Hamidou Kane initially undertook studies at Matam, where his father was Chief Financial Officer and paymaster for the cercle of Matam. In 1945, Kane began his Qur'anic studies which he completed with success six years later in 1951. It was as a result of these studies that he received the nickname Mathiara talibe Almoudo. In the same year he enrolled at the École normale supérieure William Ponty, from which he was expelled in 1959 as a result of a strike. He studied on his own for the baccalaureat and then enrolled at the Cheikh Anta Diop University and then in the economic and financial department of the École nationale d'administration, from which he received his diploma in 1967. He then travelled to France for the first time, visiting the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the prefecture of Poitiers before returning to Senegal.

In Senegal he held several high government positions in succession, mainly in the Ministry of Economy and Finance. In 1981, he was named Director of Debt and Investments in the ministry of Economy and Finance, then Director of Economic Control and Director of Internal Trade, and finally Director of External Trade. Subsequently, from 1984-1990, he was Director of the Senegalese Company of Insurance and Re-Insurance (CSAR), which would became AXA Insurance.

In March 1990, he was named ministerial delegate for the presidency in charge of African Economic Integration. Further ministerial responsibilities were then conferred on him: he was Ministerial Delegate for Rural Development in charge of water from April 1991 to June 1993, then Minister of Commerce and Industry from June 1993 to March 1995. On 15 March 1995, he was appointed Minister of the Armed Forces in Habib Thiam's third cabinet. He retained this position in Mamadou Lamine Loum's cabinet. He lost his ministerial role in 2000, after Abdoulaye Wade and the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) came to power.

Long a member of the Socialist Party, he joined the Alliance of the Forces of Progress (AFP) of Moustapha Niasse (whom he had known in university) and was made part of the AFP's political bureau and regional co-ordinator for Matam.

Between 2001 and 2007 he was an AFP delegate in the National Assembly.

He was involved in the campaigns for the local elections in 2009, but after several months of illness he travelled to France to receive treatment and then returned to Senegal. He died in Dakar on 15 May 2009 and was buried in the Muslim cemetery at Yoff.

References

  1. ↑ This nickname was given to him to avoid confusion with the writer of the same name (Linda J. Beck, Brokering Democracy in Africa: The Rise of Clientelist Democracy in Senegal, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp.240)
  2. ↑ 12 July 1939, according to the Wal Fadjri newspaper

Bibliography

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