Isabel Martins

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

Isabel Martins
Member of the People's Assembly
In office
1977–

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]

References
  1. Jacinto Veloso (2012) Memories at Low Altitude: The Autobiography of a Mozambican Security Chief
  2. Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa issues 1857–1867, p42
  3. Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p267
  4. Delinda Collier Body and flesh: Camila Maissune’s ‘3x4’
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