Michel Amani N'Guessan is an Ivorian politician and the current defence minister

Defence minister

A defence minister is a person in a cabinet position in charge of a Ministry of Defence, which regulates the armed forces in some sovereign nations...

 of Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire

The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population was 15,366,672 in 1998 and was estimated to be...

 for the Ivorian Popular Front

Ivorian Popular Front

The Ivorian Popular Front , known by its French initials FPI, is a centre-left, democratic socialist and social democratic, political party in Côte d'Ivoire....

 (FPI).

Born in Messoukro village in 1957, N'Guessan graduated from the University of Abidjan

Abidjan

Abidjan is the economic and former official capital of Côte d'Ivoire, while the current capital is Yamoussoukro. it was the largest city in the nation and the third-largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris, and Kinshasa but before Montreal...

 in 1984, with a specialisation in history

History

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 and geography

Geography

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. He subsequently became a teacher and taught from 1985 to 1999, joining the FPI in 1990.

N'Guessan was appointed Minister of National Education in January 2000, during the military rule of Robert Guéï

Robert Guéï

Robert Guéï was the military ruler of the Côte d'Ivoire from December 24, 1999 to October 26, 2000.Guéï was born in Kabakouma, a village in the western Man region, and was a member of the Yakouba tribe. He was a career soldier: under the French administration, he was trained at the Ouagadougou...

, and retained this post until April 7, 2007, when he assumed the position of defence minister.