Angèle Gnonsoa

Angèle Gnonsoa or Angèle Gnonsoa Zonsahon (born 1941) is an Ivorian academic and politician. She was a Minister of the Environment from 2003 to 2005, and Minister of Professional Education during the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis.

Biography Angèle Gnonsoa trained as an anthropologist, studying in France. She is an expert on the use of masks in Wè festivity.

As a university professor, Gnonsoa worked with Francis Wodié, trying to ensure multiparty politics in the Ivory Coast. She was a founding member of the Ivorian Workers' Party (PIT) in 1990. She was the party's second national secretary and later its first vice president. From 2003 to 2005 she served as Minister of the Environment, representing PIT in Seydou Diarra's government of national unity after the First Ivorian Civil War.

Works (with Philippe Oberlé) Masques vivants de Côte d'Ivoire. Colmar, France: S.A.E.P., 1985. Le masque au cœur de la société wè. Abidjan: Frat Mat éditions, 2007.