Lambert Amon Tanoh

Lambert Amon Tanoh (born 1926) is an Ivorian teacher, labor leader, and politician, and ambassador to Algeria.

Amon Tanoh formed his first political party in 1944 with a group of young planters.[1] He studied at a teacher's college in Katibougou Teacher's College in Mali.[2] His teaching career began at a Bingerville school for boys.[2] In 1959 he became Secretary General of the labor union Union des Travailleurs de Côte d'Ivoire.[2] The Ivory Coast government wanted labor unions to be under local control, so Tanoh led the breakaway movement, the Union Nationale des Travailleurs de Côte d'Ivoire.[2]

He subsequently became an executive member of the Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire.[3] and was elected to the National Assembly.[2] He became Minister of Education in Côte d'Ivoire in 1963[3] under President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a position held until 1970.[2]

In 1983 he was appointed the Ivory Coast ambassador to Algeria.[2]

References
  1. Rapley, John (1993). Ivoirien Capitalism: African Entrepre. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 35. ISBN 9781555873974.
  2. Daddieh, Cyril K. (2016). Historical Dictionary of Cote d'Ivoire. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 78. ISBN 9780810873896.
  3. Zolberg, Aristide R. (1964). One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 303. LCCN 63-12673.


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