Ahmedou Ould Horma Ould Babana, also known as Ahmedou Bin Horma or Horma Babana, was a Mauritanian politician and commander of the process of political struggle against colonialism.
He was born in 1907, in his childhood he studied: Quran and Arabic language and its literature, then he joined modern education willingly in Saint Louis in Senegal, this matter let his mom and the people of his village became worried because they think that the modern-educated person is a one who get rid of his identity, his religion, and repudiate of his family and became a supporter for the French colonist. After finishing his studies when he was 27 years old he worked in teaching for a short time, then he left his job to work a translator, this time the translator was the main mediator between the French colonist and the Mauritanian people which made translation a dangerous job in this period. He worked as a translator in most of Mauritanian regions, he left a good reputation because he cared about citizen’s interests by facing the French colonist, during the ten years of his work as a translator his clashes with the French colonist representatives happened because of their bad actions towards Mauritanian people and the last clash occurred because of Atar’s accident when Ould Horma quarreled with French officers because the harassed Mauritanian women in a dancing party so the colonist administration hold a disciplinary council and punished him by pending his salary and exiling him to Niger.
After knowing the requirements of French Fourth Republic constitution in October 1946 he started his election campaign, and this happened after nominating himself as a socialist in French Socialist Party, he won the support of Senegalese socialists and the people who are indignant of colonialism and its policies and the most well-known person of them were “Leopold Senghor and Lee Min Ki”, they supported him as they him the pure hearted one who will save them from the yoke of colonialism, beside that his good reputation which he gained in the different regions her worked in them made him the best choice for that. All of these previous mentioned reasons led to Ould Horma’s winning and defeating his main competitor Yvonne Razak who was French by a majority of 63% of the votes, in this time French Law allows citizens to candidate in regions over the seas. After beating him he started to carry out obligations to his supporters to keep the originality, seeking for progress and responding to Mauritanian people’s ambitions.
“Putting a policy for water” dams,wells,and water tanks. Establishing passable roads in different seasons which let us have a connection with Morocco and Senegal because this is very important for our economy. 3-Generalization of using Arabic language and French language in education.