Type | Weekly |
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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]
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]