Kennedy had even come to Washington Dulles International Airport. This explains Foccart’s sneer the day that he welcomed Olympio on the steps of the Élysée Palace. ‘’Sylvanus Olympio was not one of ...

For Sylvanus Olympio, 60, President of Togo, the nightmare began shortly after midnight. Disturbed by strange sounds in his comfortable house in the capital city of Lomé, Olympio grabbed a pistol ...

1960 - Independence. 1961 - Sylvanus Olympio elected as first president. 1963 - Olympio assassinated, replaced by Nicolas Grunitzky. 1974 - Phosphate industry nationalised. 1979 - Eyadema ...

The revelations appear in a case in which an Accra High Court upheld the claims of the late Bonito Olympio, managing Director of VANOLY Bakery at Adabraka, Accra, that he and his father, Sylvanus ...