Bourkou Louise Kabo (1934-) became the first woman elected to the parliament of Chad in 1962.^[1][2][3] She was also the first Chadian woman to teach in schools where the main language of instruction was French.ref name="2Jr.Akyeampong2012">Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong; Mr. Steven J. Niven (2 February 2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.</ref>^[4] She supported the Parti Progressiste Tchadien, which chose her to run for parliament, and François Tombalbaye, except for his cultural revolution in the early 1970s.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).^[5] In 1979 during the civil war in Chad, she ran away to Doba, losing all of her possessions in her flight.^[6] In 1982 she left for the Central African Republic when Hissène Habré came to power, and in 1987 she went to France as a political refugee.^[6] She returned to Chad in 1991 when Hissène Habré was overthrown.^[6] There she served as a deputy in the parliament from 1991 to 1995, as well as being a delegate to the constitutional convention.^[6] She was a critic of female circumcision and child marriage.^[6] She also founded a chapter of the Special Olympics, acting as its president after 2000.^[6]