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Pan-African Socialist Party was a Togo

Togo

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...

lese political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

advocating socialism

Socialism

Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...

and pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism is a movement that seeks to unify African people or people living in Africa, into a "one African community". Differing types of Pan-Africanism seek different levels of economic, racial, social, or political unity...

. It was founded in the early 1990s in response to Togo's legalization of opposition parties. After the assassination of its first and brighest leader, Tavio Amorin

Tavio Amorin

Octave Tavio Tobias Ayao Amorin was a Togolese socialist politician. He led the Pan-African Socialist Party, the ideology of which was influenced by the following three important African leaders:...

, in July 1992, the party fell into obscurity. The Togolese police were responsible for the killing.

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