La Presse Porto-Novienne ('Porto-Novo Press') was a French language weekly republican socialist newspaper published from Porto-Novo, Dahomey (present-day Benin).Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 471 The newspaper was founded in 1931 by Vincent Moreira Pinto.Araujo, Ana Lucia. Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2010. p. 113 It carried subtitles in Yoruba language, and had a Yoruba language section (one of very few newspapers at the time to include material in an African language).Boahen, A. Adu. Africa Under Colonial Domination, 1880-1935. Glosderry, South Africa: New Africa Education, 2003. p. 246
La Presse Porto-Novienne had an edgy, militant evocation of journalism.Campbell, W. Joseph. The Emergent Independent Press in Benin and Côte D'Ivoire: From Voice of the State to Advocate of Democracy. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Praeger, 1998. p. 33 It was denied government subsidies, as it was branded as 'extremist'.Lawrance, Benjamin. Locality, Mobility, and "Nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960. Rochester, NY: Univ. of Rochester Press, 2007. p. 159
See also
List of newspapers in Benin
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