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Marlène Zebango

Burkinabe politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ6772025 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marlène Habata Zebango is a Burkinabé politician who was a Minister for Youth and Sports in the government of Burkina Faso from 1991 to 1993.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Marlène Zebango” as burkinabe politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marlène, Zebango and Burkinabe.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Marlène, Zebango and Burkinabe providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Marlène Zebango”, the useful work is to connect “burkinabe politician” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6772025. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marlène Zebango” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.