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Keita, Modibo

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Keita, Modibo (1915-1977)

Mali politician, president of the Independent Republic of Mali 1960-68. A pan-Africanist (see pan-Africanism) radical who was influenced by the Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah, he was deposed in a military coup led by Moussa Traore and imprisoned until his death.

Keita was educated at the William-Ponty Lycée in Dakar, Senegal. In 1946, he was a founder member of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africaine (RDA), a cross-national African political party that sent representatives to the French National Assembly. Keita represented Sudan in 1956-58. In 1958 he was elected president of the Constituent Assembly at Dakar, and in the following year president of the Council of the Mali Federation.


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