On January 13th 1963 President Sylvanus Olympio was assassinated in a military coup by a group of eight Togolese militants led by Emmanuel Bodjolle, under direction of Sergeant Étienne Eyadéma Gnassingbé. Shock of Olympio’s assassination (which is remembered as the first President in Africa to be assassinated in a military coup) rippled throughout Togo and […]
