Lambert Amon Tanoh (14 November 1926 – 13 January 2022) was an Ivorian teacher, labor leader, and politician who served as the ambassador to Algeria.
Biography
editBorn in French Ivory Coast, French West Africa, France, Tanoh formed his first political party in 1944 with a group of young planters.[1] He studied at a teacher's college in Katibougou Teacher's College in Mali.[2] His teaching career began at a Bingerville school for boys.[2] In 1959 he became Secretary General of the labor union Union des Travailleurs de Côte d'Ivoire.[2] The Ivory Coast government wanted labor unions to be under local control, so Tanoh led the breakaway movement, the Union Nationale des Travailleurs de Côte d'Ivoire.[2]
He subsequently became an executive member of the Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire.[3] and was elected to the National Assembly.[2] He became Minister of Education in Côte d'Ivoire in 1963[3] under President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a position held until 1970.[2] In 1983 he was appointed the Ivory Coast ambassador to Algeria.[2]
Tanoh died from COVID-19 on 13 January 2022, at the age of 95.[4]
References
edit- ^ Rapley, John (1993). Ivoirien Capitalism: African Entrepre. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 35. ISBN 9781555873974.
- ^ a b c d e f g Daddieh, Cyril K. (2016). Historical Dictionary of Cote d'Ivoire. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 78. ISBN 9780810873896.
- ^ a b Zolberg, Aristide R. (1964). One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 303. LCCN 63-12673.
- ^ "Côte d'Ivoire: mort de Lambert Amon Tanoh, le «père de l'école ivoirienne»" (in French). Radio France Internationale. 13 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
External links
edit- www.rezoivoire.net Archived 23 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine
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