Nabi Youla

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Nabi Ibrahima Youla (also Naby Ibrahima Youla ; born November 20, 1918 in Kaback ; † October 7, 2014 in Conakry ) was a Guinean diplomat and State Secretary for Information and Tourism.

Life

Youla studied teaching at the École normal William Ponty and initially worked as a teacher in Conakry and Boké . At that time he was considered to be the youngest teacher in French Guinea. From 1942 to 1947 he was a supervisor at the Ecole Primeure Supérieure (EPS). He then worked as a businessman and delivered agricultural products to Conakry and Benty . Governor Roland Pré entrusted him with the task of building agricultural cooperatives in Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire . So he came to Paris, where he was supposed to improve the system of cooperation between France and the colonies. He established contacts between the African MPs in the French assemblies. He was friends with the Sudanese parliamentarians Modibo Kéita and especially Hamadoun Dicko .

1947 joined the Democratic Party of Guinea (DPG) and was a member of the board there. In the 1950s, he was the advisor to Ahmed Sékou Touré , who later became the dictatorial first President of Guinea. In 1958 he sat in parliament for the DPG. After Guinea's independence, he was appointed first ambassador to Paris, where he was accredited until January 1961. Together with his colleagues Diallo Telli , Seydou Conté and Karim Bangoura, he laid the foundations for Guinean diplomacy.

On January 25, 1962, Youla was appointed ambassador to Bonn , where he was accredited on March 23, 1962. In November 1964 he was appointed State Secretary for Information and Tourism. In 1965 his appointment as ambassador in Bonn was repeated.

In March 1967, in the run-up to Operation Mar Verde , Ahmed Sékou Touré suspected him. He resigned from all offices and resigned. In January 1971 he was sentenced to death in absentia in Conakry . Until Ahmed Sékou Touré's death in 1984, Youla lived in exile in various states, most of which was in Zaire .

After his return to Guinea, he was an advisor to President Lansana Conté from 1993 to 2000 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Oraison funèbre de SE El HADJ Ibrahima Nabi Youla. Guinee-culture.org, October 20, 2014, accessed August 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ October 11, 2014 - BlogGuinée , accessed November 12, 2016
  3. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 978-3-11-095684-9 , pp. 201 .
  4. ^ Thierno Bah, Mon combat pour la Guinée, p. 90
  5. ^ A b Mohamed Saliou Camara, Thomas O'Toole, Janice E. Baker, Historical Dictionary of Guinea, p. 310
  6. ↑ Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. October 7, 2014, accessed November 12, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / guineenews.org
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personal data
SURNAME Youla, nabi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Youla, Nabi Ibrahima (full name); Youla, Naby Ibrahima
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guinean diplomat and State Secretary for Information and Tourism
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaback
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2014
Place of death Conakry