About Djama Ali Moussa
Lived 1916 – 1959 (aged 42–43). Djama Ali Moussa was a French politician.
Djama Ali Moussa Zayli'i (, ) was a Somali politician. He was a politician of the former French Somaliland, currently known as Djibouti.
Born in Awdal, he became one of the first Senator and Somali head of state from Djibouti or French Somaliland. His family was from the Mahadcase, Bahabar Celi section of the Gadabuursi clan, part of the wider Dir clan.
History Djama Ali Moussa born in 1910 in Awdal then British Somaliland, before he entered politics he used to be a sailor. He was elected as the first representative of French Somaliland in the French National Assembly in 1946, and in December that year he was also elected as the first Somali head of French Somaliland.
Political Affiliation Groupe de l'Union Républicaine Résistante pour l'Union Française
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Djama Ali Moussa was born in 1916 in Djibouti.
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Djama Ali Moussa died in 1959.
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