Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo
Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Sovereign National Conference | |
| In office 8 July 1991 – 28 August 1991 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 January 1928 Ahouangor, French Dahomey, French West Africa |
| Died | 23 February 2026 (aged 98) |
| Party | CDPA |
| Education | ESTP University of Paris |
| Occupation | Historian |
Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo (16 January 1928 – 23 February 2026) was a Togolese historian and politician of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples (CDPA).[1]
Life and career
Tété-Adjalogo attended the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics and the University of Paris[2] before working for the World Bank in Washington, D.C. for 20 years.[3] He was a founding member of the CDPA and notably served on the Sovereign National Conference amidst the 1990–1991 Togo protests.[4] He also published numerous works on the political history of Togo, German and French colonization, figures of independence, pan-Africanism, and contemporary democratic struggles. His writings focused particularly on Marcus Garvey and Sylvanus Olympio.[5]
Tété-Adjalogo died on 23 February 2026, at the age of 98.[6]
Publications
- Marcus Garvey : Père de l’unité africaine des peuples
- La Question nègre
- De la colonisation allemande au Deutsche-Togo Bund
- Omer Adoté, un martyr politique du Togo
- Des principes fondamentaux du militantisme
- Peuples africains, prenons en main notre destin !
- Ma chétive vie – Parcours d’un militant politique panafricaniste
- Histoire du Togo
- La palpitante quête de l’Ablodé (1940–1960)
- Le régime et l’assassinat de Sylvanus Olympio (1960–1963)
- La longue nuit de terreur (1963–2003)
- Le cœur du peuple togolais : soupire vers la liberté[7]
References
- ^ "Godwin Tété Adjalogo, mémoire vivante du Togo, est mort à 98 ans". Renouveau (in French). 24 February 2026. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
- ^ "Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo, témoin et mémoire de notre histoire". Togoactualite (in French). 23 February 2026. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
- ^ "« Ma Chétive vie », une autobiographie de Tété Godwin". Le Togolais (in French). 15 January 2008. Archived from the original on 8 September 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
- ^ "Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo". KEMETMAAT (in French).
- ^ "Togo: Les ouvrages de Godwin TÉTÉ". Le Togolais (in French). 10 November 2006. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
- ^ "L'historien et écrivain togolais Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo n'est plus!". Togotimes (in French). 24 February 2026. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
- ^ "Le coeur du peuple togolais : soupire vers la liberté : essai". Mollat (in French).