Germany: Aminata Touré, young minister of Malian origin, in Vogue magazine
German Social Affairs Minister Aminata Touré with former US President Barack Obama on April 6, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
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Aminata Touré is on the cover of the December issue of German Vogue.
A cover noticed in more than one respect.
The first politician to make the front page of the magazine in Germany, Touré is also the country's youngest minister.
The elected Green gives an interview to the magazine, in which she also discusses the fight against sexism and racism.
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With our correspondent in Berlin,
Nathalie Versieux
What a path that this young green politician of 30 years has taken!
The Touré family arrived in Germany in 1991, after fleeing a putsch in Mali.
But it was not until 13 years later that the anxiety of the next day ceased for the parents and their four daughters.
“
We were always afraid of expulsion.
I was 12 when we finally got a real residence permit
,” recalls the young woman born in northern Germany at a time when only blood rights counted.
Today, she is Minister of Social Affairs of the land of Mecklenburg, in the north of the former GDR, the youngest in the country to a position of this importance.
She is also the first sitting politician to grace the cover of the German edition of Vogue magazine.
In unserer neuen Dezember-Ausgabe stellen wir Ihnen Menschen mit starken Visionen vor.
Bestes Beispiel ist die Frau auf unserem Cover, Aminata Touré, Ministerin Schleswig-Holstein.
#voguegermany #voguecover #aminatatoure pic.twitter.com/WuuDWvcoBl
— VOGUE_Germany (@VOGUE_Germany) November 18, 2022
White knit dress, long neatly combed black braids, determined look on a pale blue background.
"
A young black woman who has political responsibilities in Germany - maybe that's a good statement at the right time and in the right place
," she adds, as the far right advances in Europe.
Aminata Touré regularly denounces the sexism and racism that have marred her political career.
Definitely a follower of great firsts, Aminata Touré became, this summer, the
first black woman elected minister
in the German region.
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