Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (born 1887)

Kojo Tovalou Houénou

Beninese Pan-Africanist intellectual and doctor (1887–1936)

Kojo Tovalou Houénou was a prominent African critic of the French colonial empire in Africa. Born in Porto-Novo to a wealthy father and a mother who belonged to the royal family of the Kingdom of Dahomey, he was sent to France for education at the age of 13. There he received a…