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Prominent Figure · Politics

Diallo Telli

Guinean diplomat and politician (1925–1977)

Boubacar Diallo Telli was a Guinean diplomat and politician. He helped found the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and was the second secretary-general of the OAU between 1964 and 1972. After serving as Minister of Justice in Guinea for four years he was executed by starvation by the regime of Ahmed Sékou Touré at Camp Boiro in 1977.

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Before the African Union: Diallo Telli and the Unfinished Architecture of African Unity

Sixty years after the Organisation of African Unity was founded, the African Union has a parliament, a peace council and the world's largest free trade area by membership…

19 Oct 2026

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