found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed June, 26, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Yaou, Aïssatou; human rights activist, government foreign official, born on 28 November, 1951 in Tcheboa, Cameroon; passed baccalaureate examinations (1971); earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Rouen, France (1975); studies at Georgetown University and Claremont Graduate School, US, receiving MA in Business Administration (1975-79); returned to Cameroon and was hired almost immediately by the Société Nationale des Investissements (SNI); served as Minister of Women's Affairs in Cameroon (1984-94) in the government of President Paul Biya; worked for improvements for women, reformed primary schools, led the Cameroonian delegation at the 1995 UN Women's Conference, Beijing, China; became top member of Fondation Chantal Biya mid-1990s; left government (2000); SNI appointed her senior manager; became head of the women's section of Biya's ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) for next decade; received the U.S. Department of State human rights award (2008); one of most well-known female political, social leaders in postcolonial Cameroon)
