Rama Yade

Rama Yade – Rama Yade, French State Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Human Rights, at a Ceremony in Memory of the Victims of the Genocide in Rwanda – Paris – Paris, France – Photo Credit: Pixplanete / PR Photos

Birth Name: Mame Ramatoulaye Yade

Place of Birth: Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal

Date of Birth: December 13, 1976

Ethnicity: Senegalese (Lebou)

Rama Yade is a Senegalese-born French conservative politician and author. She has served as the French Secretary of Human Rights from 2007 to 2009, and as Secretary of Sports from 2009 to 2010, among other duties.

Rama was raised in a Muslim upper middle class family. Her mother, Aminata Kandji, was a professor, and her father, Djibril Yade, a diplomat and also a professor, was the personal secretary of Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor. Rama moved to France with her family at the age of eight, and attended Catholic schools.

Rama’s husband, Joseph Zimet, is Jewish.