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): Anouk Aimée • Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus • Draža Mihailović • Edward Whymper • Frank Abagnale • Geoffrey Shovelton • Joe Moakley • Meselech Melkamu • Nick Kyrgios • Patrick Stump • Pete Ham • Seppo Räty • Thomas Lewis (Virginia politician) • Warren Wood

Born in the same month (April 1902): Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) • Fernando Pessa • Halldór Laxness • Johan Borgen • Louis Beel • Marguerite Henry • Maria Maksakova Sr. • Maria Polydouri • Mary Miles Minter • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Philippe de Rothschild • Stanley G. Weinbaum • Sylvio Mantha • Theodore Schultz • Veniamin Kaverin • Waldemar Hammenhög • Werner Heyde