Isabel Martins Explained

Office1:	Member of the People's Assembly
Term1:	1977–

Isabel Martins was a Mozambican politician. In 1977 she was one of the first group of women elected to the People's Assembly.

Biography

During the Mozambican War of Independence she travelled to Algeria,^[1] where FRELIMO fighters receive training. She was a FRELIMO candidate in the 1977 parliamentary elections,^[2] in which she was one of the first group of 27 women elected to the People's Assembly.^[3] She married Camilo de Sousa; one of their children, Camila Maissune de Sousa, became a well-known artist.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Jacinto Veloso (2012) Memories at Low Altitude: The Autobiography of a Mozambican Security Chief
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=plZEAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA9-PA42 Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa
3. Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p267
4. Delinda Collier Body and flesh: Camila Maissune’s ‘3x4’