Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté

Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté (* April 27, 1902 in Ségou, † 1942 in Montlucon ) was a Malian anti-colonial activist.

Life

Kouyaté was born in 1902 in Ségou in French Sudan (now Mali). After he had completed his education in 1921 at the École William Ponty on the island of Gorée, he worked until 1923 in the Ivory Coast as a primary school teacher. After that he went to Aix -en- Provence in France to take up studies at the local university. In 1926 he was excluded from the university because he had spread communist propaganda. Kouyaté went to Paris and was a co-founder of the anti-colonial association Ligue de Défense de la Race Nègre and published the journal La Race Nègre.

After the Ligue underwent a split, Kouyaté worked on the establishment of the Union of unproductive nègres and the newspaper Le Cri of Nègres. Because of its non-dogmatic communist attitude he was soon expelled by Communist hardliners from the Union and expelled from the French Communist Party. He started for the Étoile nord- africaine by Messali Hadj to work, the pursued as anti-colonial goals. Kouyaté collaborated at the international level with non-communist black activists such as Marcus Garvey, WEB Du Bois and George Padmore.

During the Second World War Kouyaté locksmith was in Montlucon. He was arrested in 1942 by the Germans because he did not want to name the author of an act of sabotage. Then he was deported to the Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen, where he died.