Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté

Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté (born April 27, 1902 in Ségou , † July 4, 1944 in Mauthausen ) was a Malian anti-colonial activist.

Life

Kouyaté was born in 1902 in Ségou in French Sudan (today's Mali ). After he had completed his school education at the École normal William Ponty on the island of Gorée in 1921 , he initially worked as a primary school teacher in the Ivory Coast until 1923 . He then went to Aix-en-Provence in France to study at the university there. In 1926, however, he was expelled from college for spreading communist propaganda. Kouyaté went to Paris and co-founded the anti-colonial association Ligue de Défense de la Race Nègre and published the magazine La Race Nègre .

After the Ligue experienced a split, Kouyaté worked on founding the Union des travailleurs nègres and the newspaper Le Cri des Nègres . Because of his undogmatic communist attitude, he was soon expelled from the Union by hardliners and expelled from the French Communist Party . He began to work for the Étoile Nord-Africaine of Messali Hadj , which also pursued anti-colonial goals. Kouyaté also collaborated on the international level with non-communist black activists such as Marcus Garvey , WEB Du Bois or George Padmore .

During the Second World War , Kouyaté was a locksmith in Montluçon . He was arrested by the Germans in 1942 because he did not want to name the perpetrators of an act of sabotage. He was then deported to the Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen , where he died.

literature

• Samuel Same Kolle: Naissance et paradoxes du discours anthropologique africain. l'Harmattan, 2007. ISBN 978-2-296-03191-3
• Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch: Des victimes oubliées du nazisme. Les noirs et l'Allemagne dans la première moitié du XXe siècle , le Cherche Midi, 2007. ISBN 978-2-7491-0630-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Detailed biography on maitron-en-ligne.univ-paris1.fr (French)