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Hubert Maga

1916–2000 · 20th century

Hubert Maga was a schoolteacher from northern Dahomey who became one of the colony's three leading politicians. He was the first president of independent Dahomey from 1960 until a coup in 1963, and returned as head of a rotating presidential council in 1970, before Mathieu Kérékou's coup of 1972 removed him.

Hubert Maga
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French Dahomey

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