| Type | Weekly |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Vincent Moreira Pinto |
| Founded | 1931 |
| Language | French/Yoruba |
| Headquarters | Porto-Novo |
La Presse Porto-Novienne ('Porto-Novo Press') was a French language weekly republican socialist newspaper published from Porto-Novo, Dahomey (present-day Benin).[1] The newspaper was founded in 1931 by Vincent Moreira Pinto.[1][2] It carried subtitles in Yoruba language, and had a Yoruba language section (one of very few newspapers at the time to include material in an African language).[2][3]
La Presse Porto-Novienne had an edgy, militant evocation of journalism.[4] It was denied government subsidies, as it was branded as 'extremist'.[5]
- ^ a b Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 471
- ^ a b Araujo, Ana Lucia. Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2010. p. 113
- ^ Boahen, A. Adu. Africa Under Colonial Domination, 1880-1935. Glosderry, South Africa: New Africa Education, 2003. p. 246
- ^ Campbell, W. Joseph. The Emergent Independent Press in Benin and Côte D'Ivoire: From Voice of the State to Advocate of Democracy. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Praeger, 1998. p. 33
- ^ Lawrance, Benjamin. Locality, Mobility, and "Nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960. Rochester, NY: Univ. of Rochester Press, 2007. p. 159