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The former Minister of State of the first Republic of Congo, Isaac Ibouanga, died on September 3 in Dolisie, capital of the Niari department.
Isaac Ibouanga was the last person still alive to have figured in the government of President Fulbert Youlou, at the independence of the Congo. Born in 1935 in Mossendjo, in the department of Niari, he came from the first promotion of the School of Teachers of Mbounda, in Dolisie.
The former Minister of State served as a teacher in the schools of his native department, before he was appointed Minister of State at the age of twenty-five in 1959.
Elected deputy in 1959 on the list of the Democratic Union for the Defense of African Interests (UDDIA), Isaac Ibouanga was minister several times. He has, among other things, held the portfolios of Minister of Information; Minister of Industrial Production, Mines and Telecommunications, in charge of Civil and Commercial Aviation. Isaac Ibouanga also worked at the pan-African airline Air Afrique, before being appointed technical adviser to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Libreville, Gabon.
The President of the Republic, Denis Sassou N’Guesso, decorated him on November 28, 2018, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 60e anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic, to the rank of Grand Officer in the Congolese Order of Merit.
It should be noted that Isaac Ibouanga had been living for several years in Dolisie where he died on September 3.
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