In the years immediately following World War I, Prince Marc Kojo Tovalou Houènou was one of a small number of French Speaking Africans to openly challenge French rule on that continent. In his short book, L’Involutjon Métamorphoses et des Métempsychoses de l’univers, which was published in 1921, he attacked the European colonisation of Africa. Three years later he created the Ligue Universelle pour la Defense de la Race Noire while he lived in Paris, France. In the following address given at the Inter-Allied School of Higher Social Studies, University of Paris in 1924, Houènou describes the situation facing the residents of French Colonial Africa.
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