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): Anna Chancellor • Charles Robert Cockerell • Chris Berger • Chuck Knox • Dana Milbank • Edward Whymper • Edwin Morgan (poet) • Erik Thomson • Jules Lemaître • Kazuyoshi Funaki • Lars Bender • Mike Krushelnyski • Pedro Feliz • Vladimir Kozlov

Born in the same month (April 1902): Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) • Fernando Pessa • Jan Tschichold • Louis Beel • Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin • Maria Maksakova Sr. • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Philippe de Rothschild • Stanley G. Weinbaum • Theodore Schultz • Théodore Monod • Veniamin Kaverin • Waldemar Hammenhög