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): Andrew Schlafly • Chris Carpenter • Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus • Erik Thomson • Florence La Badie • Frank Abagnale • George Petty • Hans Hartwig von Beseler • Im Sang-soo • James Mann (South Carolina politician) • Judy Carne • Keenan Allen • Lars Bender • Lizzo • Marc-Antoine Parseval • Sten Rudholm • Sybille Bammer

Born in the same month (April 1902): Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) • Fernando Pessa • Giuseppe Pella • Jan Tschichold • Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin • Maria Polydouri • Mary Miles Minter • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Philippe de Rothschild • Stanley G. Weinbaum • Theodore Schultz • Théodore Monod • Waldemar Hammenhög