Modibo Keïta — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Modibo Keïta; used for entity facts only. It recounts his birth in Bamako in 1915, his teaching career, his co-founding of the Sudanese Union, his premiership of the Mali Federation and presidency of independent Mali (1960–1968), his African socialism, his overthrow by Moussa Traoré in 1968 and his death in prison on 16 May 1977. On religion its text speaks only of his family: 'His family were Malian Muslims who claimed direct descent from the Keita dynasty.'