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Paul Hazoumé

Died in 1980

Paul Hazoumé was born on 15 April 1890 in Porto-Novo, in Dahomey, into a noble family of the kingdom of Porto-Novo, where his grandfather had been prime minister. Trained at the École William-Ponty in Senegal, he became director of the school in Ouidah in 1910, ran a newspaper with Louis Hunkanrin during the First World War and collaborated with the Musée de l'Homme. An ethnologist, he studied the traditions of Dahomey. After 1945, he co-founded the Union progressiste dahoméenne and sat in the Assembly of the French Union from 1947 to 1958. He died in Cotonou on 18 April 1980.

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