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Modibo Keïta
Modibo Keïta was the first president of Mali, from independence in 1960 until 1968. A teacher educated at the École William Ponty, he led the Sudanese Union–African Democratic Rally, sat in the French National Assembly and briefly headed the Mali Federation with Senegal. He pursued socialist policies and close ties with the Eastern bloc, and was overthrown in a coup by Moussa Traoré in 1968 and died in detention.
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