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Dahomeyan Progressive Union
The Dahomeyean Progressive Union (french: Union Progressiste Dahoméenne, UPD) was a political party in Dahomey. History The party was established in April 1946 by Augustin Kokou Azango and Émile Derlin Zinsou, and was the first political party in the territory.Patrick Manning (2004) ''Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960'', Cambridge University Press, p276Mathurin C Houngnikpo & Samuel Decalo (2012) ''Historical Dictionary of Benin'', Scarecrow Press, p68 It was initially affiliated with the African Democratic Rally, but dropped its link in 1948. A breakaway in 1946 lead to the creation of the African People's Bloc, but the party still won the 1946–47 General Council elections, taking 20 of the 30 seats. Another breakaway occurred between 1950 and 1951, when Hubert Maga left the UPD to establish the Ethnic Group of the North under encouragement from Roger Péperty, the northern area's French administrator. Sourou-Migan Apithy also left the party i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahomey
The Kingdom of Dahomey () was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by expanding south to conquer key cities like Whydah belonging to the Kingdom of Whydah on the Atlantic coast which granted it unhindered access to the tricontinental triangular trade. For much of the middle 19th century, the Kingdom of Dahomey became a key regional state, after eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire. European visitors extensively documented the kingdom, and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans. The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor, significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustin Kokou Azango
Augustin Kokou Azango (born 28 August 1897, in Grand-Popo in Dahomey (current Benin) – 27 September 1971, in the same city) was a journalist, politician, businessman, Dahomean diplomat, co-founder and leader of the first political party of the history of his country, the Dahomeyan Progressive Union (UPD). Biography Education Augustin Azango was born on 28 August 1897, in Grand-Popo in Dahomey, to a merchant father. His name is Kokoun. During his baptism, his parents gave him the Christian first name of Augustin. He later became a student at the school of the fathers, at the Catholic mission of Grand-Popo. In 1921, he was one of the founding members of the Nonvitcha association, for which he wrote the internal regulations. Nonvitcha's initial aim was to bring together the Xwéda and the Xwla, peoples living mainly in the coastal area of Dahomey. In 1924, in order to pursue his higher studies, he left Dahomey for France where he settled in Paris. He was admitted to HEC P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Derlin Zinsou
Émile Derlin Zinsou (23 March 1918 – 28 July 2016) was a Beninese politician and physician who was the President of Dahomey (now Benin) from 17 July 1968 until 10 December 1969, supported by the military regime that took power in 1967. Zinsou was present at the signing of the treaty that formed the African Union on 12 July 2000 in Togo. Biography Early life and medical career Zinsou was born in Ouidah on 23 March 1918. He was educated at Porto Novo and the Ecole William Ponty in Senegal. He studied medicine at the Dakar Medical College and qualified as a doctor. Zinsou was a physician in the French army from 1939 to 1940. Afterwards he operated a private practice and began to become involved in colonial politics.Houngnikpo & Decalo 2013, p. 373. Political career and presidency Zinsou was one of the founders of Dahomey's first political party, the Union Progressiste Dahoméenne (UPD). He was an assistant to Sourou-Migan Apithy in 1945 and was a deputy to the French Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Democratic Rally
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African People's Bloc
The African People's Bloc (french: Bloc Populaire Africain, BPA) was a political party in French Dahomey. History The party was established in 1946 by Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin and Émile Poisson due to their dissatisfaction with the policies of the Dahomeyan Progressive Union (UPD). In the 1946–47 General Council elections the party won 6 of the 30 seats, finishing second to the Dahomeyan Progressive Union;Joseph-Roger de Benoist (1982) Afrique Occidentale française de 1944 à 1960, p537 Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin and Poisson were both elected. The party failed to win a seat in the French National Assembly in the 1951 elections, but won four seats in the 1952 Territorial Assembly elections.Sternberger, D, Vogel, B, Nohlen, D & Landfried, K (1978) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Ereste Halbband'', p530 In 1955 the party merged with the UPD to form the Dahomeyan Democratic Union The Dahomeyan Democratic Union (french: Union Démocratique Dahoméenne, UDD) wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahomeyan General Council Election, 1946–47
The Kingdom of Dahomey () was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by expanding south to conquer key cities like Whydah belonging to the Kingdom of Whydah on the Atlantic coast which granted it unhindered access to the tricontinental triangular trade. For much of the middle 19th century, the Kingdom of Dahomey became a key regional state, after eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire. European visitors extensively documented the kingdom, and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans. The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor, significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Maga
Coutoucou Hubert Maga (August 10, 1916 – May 8, 2000) was a politician from Dahomey (now known as Benin).Dahomey was renamed Benin in 1975. Se''New York Times'' obituary He arose on a political scene where one's power was dictated by what region in Dahomey one lived in. Born a peasant in 1916, Maga served as a schoolmaster from 1936 to 1945, during which time he gradually gained considerable influence among the uneducated. He was elected to Dahomey's territorial assembly in 1947 and founded the Northern Ethnical Group, later renamed the Dahomey Democratic Rally (''Rassemblement Démocratique du Dahomé''). In 1951, Maga was elected to the French National Assembly, where he served in various positions, including premier from 1959 to 1960. When Dahomey gained its independence from France on August 1, 1960, Maga was appointed to the presidency, and was officially elected to that post on December 11. During Maga's term of office, Dahomey's economy collapsed; there was little f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic Group Of The North
The Dahomeyan Democratic Movement (french: Mouvement Démocratique Dahoméen, MDD) was a political party in French Dahomey. History The MDD was established in northern Dahomey by Hubert Maga in 1951 as the Ethnic Group of the North (''Groupement Ethnique du Nord'', GEN). Maga had previously been a member of the ruling Dahomeyan Progressive Union, but was encouraged to split from the party by the local French administrator Roger Péperty. Maga gained support from his Bariba people, and won one of the two Dahomey seats in the French National Assembly in the June 1951 elections.Sternberger, D, Vogel, B, Nohlen, D & Landfried, K (1978) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Ereste Halbband'', p530 The party won 9 of the 32 second college seats in the 1952 Territorial Assembly elections, emerging as the second-largest faction behind the Republican Party of Dahomey. In 1953 it became the Dahomeyan Democratic Movement. Maga was re-elected to the French National Assembly in 1956 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party Of Dahomey
The Republican Party of Dahomey (french: Parti Républicain Dahoméen, PRD) was a political party in French Dahomey led by Sourou-Migan Apithy. History The party was established by Apithy in 1951.Mathurin C Houngnikpo & Samuel Decalo (2012) ''Historical Dictionary of Benin'', Scarecrow Press, p54 It emerged as the largest party in the 1952 Territorial Assembly elections, winning 19 of the 32 second college seats. The party came first in the 1956 French National Assembly elections, returning Apithy to the Assembly. The PRD went on to win the 1957 Territorial Assembly elections, taking 35 of the 60 seats. In 1958 the party merged with the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally (RDD) to form the Dahomeyan Progressive Party, which was to be the Dahomeyan branch of the African Regroupment Party. However, internal disagreements led to the parties splitting back into their original forms in 1959.Houngnikpo & Decalo, p306 The PRD also won the 1959 elections, despite receiving fewer votes than t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahomeyan Territorial Assembly Election, 1952
Elections for the Territorial Assembly were held in French Dahomey on 30 March 1952. Sourou-Migan Apithy's Republican Party of Dahomey won 19 of the 32 second college seats. Only ten members of the Legislative Council elected in 1947 were re-elected.Virginia Thompson & Richard Adloff (1958) ''French West Africa'', Stanford University Press, p66 Background The Legislative Council had been created as part of the constitutional reforms that created French Fourth Republic. In 1952 it was converted into the Territorial Assembly, and was enlarged from 30 to 50 seats. The Assembly was elected by two electoral colleges; 18 by the first electoral college and 32 by the second.Mathurin C Houngnikpo & Samuel Decalo (2012) ''Historical Dictionary of Benin'', Scarecrow Press, p63 Results References {{Beninese elections Elections in Benin Dahomey The Kingdom of Dahomey () was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahomeyan Democratic Union
The Dahomeyan Democratic Union (french: Union Démocratique Dahoméenne, UDD) was a political party in French Dahomey. History The UDD was established in 1955 by a merger of the Dahomeyan Progressive Union (UPD) and the African People's Bloc (BPA). It aimed to be a nationwide party, but despite initially gaining support from across the country, it quickly became identified as the party of the Fon of Abomey and Cotonou. The party failed to win a seat in the French National Assembly in the 1956 elections, and split into two factions later in the year over the issue of affiliation with the African Democratic Rally (RDA); former BPA leader Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin became head of the dominant RDA faction, whilst Alexandre Adandé and former UPD leader Émile Derlin Zinsou headed the smaller UDD-Convention.Patrick Manning (2004) ''Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960'', Cambridge University Press, p. 279 Despite its internal problems and regionalised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Political Parties In Benin
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