Edem Kodjo

Edem Kodjo ( born 1938 in Sokodé as Édouard Kodjovi Kodjo ) is a Togolese politician and writer.

Political career

Edem Kodjo was Gnassingbe Eyadema already under President from 1973 to 1976 Finance Minister of Togo, then to 1978, Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1978 to 1984 he was Secretary General of the OAU, the Organisation for African Unity (now the African Union).

As part of the awakening movements after the end of the East-West confrontation and by then the dominant African politics bloc politics he broke out in 1990 with Eyadema and founded the Togolese Union for Democracy ( UTD ).

As chairman of the small opposition party UTD, he was appointed on 22 April 1994 by the President Gnassingbe Eyadema first time as prime minister. In the previous parliamentary elections, the UTD had only seven seats in the National Assembly ( one of them by Kodjo ), the major opposition party, however, won 36 of the CAR 81 seats, the ruling party RPT thus lost the majority. Both opposition parties were part of the so-called " moderate opposition ", which could be induced by intensive efforts of France, Germany, the U.S. and Burkina Faso to participate in the elections, while the parties to the "traditional" or "radical " opposition boycotted the elections.

Edem Kodjo formed a coalition government made ​​up of members of the UTD, the former Unity Party RPT and independents. Among the most important acts of his government was the adoption of an amnesty law for politically motivated crimes in December 1994 and the release of many political prisoners. As for elections in August 1996, the RPT recorded large gains, Edem Kodjo resigned; the occupation of key positions remained under his successor Kwassi Klutse unchanged. The cooperation with the RPT has led to some isolation Kodjos within the opposition.

Edem Kodjo is currently Chairman of the Convergence patriotique Panafricaine (CPP ), which emerged from the fusion of small opposition parties PAD, UTD, UDS and PDU.

On 8 June 2005 appointed President Faure Gnassingbe, which is not yet recognized by the EU because of its disputed election, Edem Kodjo as prime minister. Even before the presidential election Kodjo had proposed the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the model of South Africa. His successor as prime minister in September 2006 Yawovi Agboyibo.

Scripture Generic works

Kodjo has published several books. In 1985 and 2006, he was awarded the Grand Prix littéraire de l' Afrique noire.

Nicolas Grunitzky | Sylvanus Olympio | Joseph Kokou Koffigoh | Edem Kodjo | Kwassi Klutse | Eugene Koffi Adoboli | Agbéyomé Kodjo | Koffi Sama | Edem Kodjo | Yawovi Agboyibo | Komlan Mally | Gilbert Houngbo | Kwesi Ahoomey - Zunu

  • Prime Minister (Togo)
  • Foreign Minister (Togo)
  • Finance Minister (Togo)
  • Member of the National Assembly (Togo)
  • Literature ( Togo)
  • Togolese
  • Born in 1938
  • Man
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