Nyamko Sabuni

Nyamko Ana Sabuni is a Burundianborn Swedish former politician who served as Minister for Gender Equality in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2013. A member of the Liberal Peoples Party, Sabuni was elected a Member of Parliament in 2002 and assumed the office of Minister for Gender Equality onOctober 2006. From 2006 to 2010 she also served as Minister for Integration.

Nyamko Sabuni was born in Bujumbura in Burundi where her father, a leftwing politician from Zaire, lived in exile. Sabunis father is a Christian while her mother is a Muslim. The family obtained political asylum in Sweden in 1981 and Sabuni grew up in Kungsngen, north of Stockholm. She studied law at Uppsala University, migration policy at Mlardalen University in Eskilstuna, and information and media communications at Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm.

Source: Wikipedia