Yameogo, Maurice

1921 - Born on the 31st of December at Koudougou, West Africa.

1948 - He was elected General Counsellor of Koudougou, West Africa.

1957 - he was elected Grand Counsellor of AOF (French Occidental Africa) on a MDV list

            (Voltaic Democratic Movement).

1958 - He was appointed as a Minister of Interior.
       
1959 - On the 11th of December he became the the first President of the new Republic of Upper-Volta West Africa.

1960 - He proclaimed independence of the country of Upper-Volta West Africa.

1965 - He married Suzanne de Monaco, a young Ivorian woman.

1966 - On the 3rd of January He was obliged to leave the his Presidency.

1969 - He was condemned to five years of forced work and to a life time banishment.

1985 - He was was exiled in Ivory Coast on the south coast of the western bulge of Africa.