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(1928-01-16)16 January 1928
Ahouangor, French Dahomey, French West Africa
Died23 February 2026(2026-02-23) (aged 98)
PartyCDPA
EducationESTP
University of Paris
OccupationHistorian

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

  1. ^ "Godwin Tété Adjalogo, mémoire vivante du Togo, est mort à 98 ans". Renouveau (in French). 24 February 2026. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo, témoin et mémoire de notre histoire". Togoactualite (in French). 23 February 2026. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
  3. ^ "« 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.
  4. ^ "Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo". KEMETMAAT (in French).
  5. ^ "Togo: Les ouvrages de Godwin TÉTÉ". Le Togolais (in French). 10 November 2006. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
  6. ^ "L'historien et écrivain togolais Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo n'est plus!". Togotimes (in French). 24 February 2026. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
  7. ^ "Le coeur du peuple togolais : soupire vers la liberté : essai". Mollat (in French).