Modibo Keïta
Malian politician and President of Mali (1915-1977)
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- 1915-06-04
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- 1977-05-16
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- Gouvernance participative et pratiques démocratiques au Mali
- Building Partnerships for Urban Waste Management in Bamako
- Erziehung und Entwicklung in der Dritten Welt
- Partenariat Entre La Municipalite Et La Societe Civile
- Techniques d'animation en milieu rural
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Modibo Keïta (4 June 1915 – 16 May 1977) was a Malian politician who served as the first President of Mali from 1960 to 1968. He espoused a form of African socialism. He was deposed in a coup d'état in 1968 by Moussa Traoré.
Born and raised in Bamako, Keïta began a career as a teacher in 1936 under French colonial rule before entering politics during the 1940s. In 1945, he co-founded the Sudanese Union (US) with Mamadou Konaté which became part of the African Democratic Rally (RDA) the following year to form the US-RDA. Being elected to several positions, his political prominence grew in the 1950s, and in 1959, he became Prime Minister of the Mali Federation, a short-lived federation of Mali and Senegal. Following the federation's collapse in 1960, Mali became an independent state, and Keïta became the new country's inaugural president.
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1915 births1977 deaths20th-century Malian politiciansAfrican socialismDeputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fifth RepublicDeputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fourth RepublicHeads of state and government who were later imprisonedHonorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St GeorgeKeita familyLeaders ousted by a coupMalian Muslims