Marie Madoé Sivomey

Following the January 1967 Togolese coup d'état and the ascent to power of President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, all the country's elected bodies were dissolved, political parties were banned, and the administration of Togo's communes fell to délégations spéciales, or special delegations. In this fraught context, Marie Madoé Sivomey was designated mayor of Lomé on July 24, 1967, based on her extensive experience as a civil servant.

She returned permanently to Togo, which gained independence from France in 1960, and supported the leadership of the country's Direct Tax Department from 1960 to 1962. She then worked as chief administrative secretary and then director of social affairs starting in 1963. At the same time, she represented Togo at various symposiums and congresses, and in 1961 she became the first Togolese woman to participate in a session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Sivomey was hired by the French colonial administration as a civil servant, working in the Finance Department from 1940 to 1945. She continued this Finance Department work under the framework of French West Africa from 1945 until 1953, including in the Direct Tax Department of the city of Bobo-Dioulasso, in what is now Burkina Faso.

Marie Madoé Sivomey (July 3, 1923 – September 15, 2008), born Marie Madoé Gbikpi–Benissan, was a Togolese politician who was the first woman to serve as a mayor in Togo, overseeing the capital, Lomé, from 1967 to 1974.

She was born in 1923 in a Christian family in Aného, a town in southeastern Togo's Maritime region, the spiritual center of the Guin-Mina people. Her brother, Jean Kuassi Gbikpi, would later become archbishop of Lomé.