Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté

Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté, teacher, journalist and political activist was a pioneer for African nationalism and one of the first Communists in Africa. He was born on April 27, 1902, in Ségou, French Soudan. Kouyaté was regarded as the most influential personality among the West African migrant community in France according to French intelligence assessments. Kouyaté was also among the first generation of Western-educated Africans in French Soudan. He was from the Bambara ethnic group of Mali. He was first educated at a primary school in Bamako, the capital of Mali. Kouyaté arrived in France after he was awarded a scholarship to further his studies at the Ecole Normale at Aix en Provence. ^{Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté, Malian educator and activist (d. 1942)}

27 April 1902

Born on the same birth day (27 April): Allen Sothoron • Betty Mae Tiger Jumper • Charles Emmanuel III • Chris Carpenter • Darcey Bussell • Derek Minter • Edwin Morgan (poet) • Erik Thomson • Fethullah Gülen • Frank Abagnale • G. K. Butterfield • Geoffrey Shovelton • Gian-Carlo Rota • Kate Pierson • Keenan Allen • Keith Magnuson • Marc-Antoine Parseval • Ron Morris (pole vaulter) • Sharlee D'Angelo • Terry Willesee • Theo Angelopoulos • William W. Snow

Born in the same month (April 1902): Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) • Eduard Eelma • Halldór Laxness • Marguerite Henry • Maria Maksakova Sr. • Mary Miles Minter • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Stanley G. Weinbaum • Veniamin Kaverin • Waldemar Hammenhög • Werner Heyde