Aissatou DICKO

IPACC Representative, IPACC - INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF AFRICA COORDINATING COMMITTEE

Aissatou DICKO is from the great Fulani Feroobe family, a once very nomadic group who ended up settling in the far north of Burkina Faso by creating a Theocratic State “Peulh Emirate of Liptako”. She attended school there until she graduated from high school. After obtaining the baccalaureate series “letters philosophy”, she continued at the University of Ouagadougou in the Department of Sociology. Imbued with the realities of her area of ​​origin, she took an early interest in the condition of marginalized women facing various development challenges. In 1997, she quit university after two years and embarked on community development by engaging as a Facilitator in a Danish NGO whose mission was “Natural Resource Management” in her region of origin.