Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada (1821-1915)
Mathieu Kerekou
politician (1933-2015)
Mathieu Kerekouwas a Beninese politician who served as president of the People’s Republic of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and the Republic of Benin from 1996 to 2006.
After seizing power in a military coup, he ruled the country for 18 years, for most of that time under an officially Marxist-Leninist ideology, before he was stripped of his powers by the National Conference of 1990.
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About the Mathieu Kerekou
Mathieu Kerekouwas a Beninese politician who served as president of the People’s Republic of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and the Republic of Benin from 1996 to 2006.
After seizing power in a military coup, he ruled the country for 18 years, for most of that time under an officially Marxist-Leninist ideology, before he was stripped of his powers by the National Conference of 1990. He was defeated in the 1991 presidential election but was returned to the presidency in the 1996 election and controversially re-elected in 2001.
3 Quotes by Mathieu Kerekou
- 1.
I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.
Mathieu Kerekoupolitician (1933-2015)
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Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.
Mathieu Kerekoupolitician (1933-2015)
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Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
Mathieu Kerekoupolitician (1933-2015)