Dorothée Lima

Dorothée Joaquim Lima was a newspaper editor and publisher in Dahomey who was instrumental in the development of news media in Dahomey during the French colonial era. With Jean Adjovi he edited the influential but short-lived Le Guide du Dahomey (1920-22).^[1] Later, he replaced Jean Adjovi as the editor of La Voix du Dahomey.

Lima was a Dahomey born, naturalised French citizen who had been educated at a Catholic mission at Porto Novo. He served in the French colonial administration before World War I.^[2] He was one of the group of returnees from Brazil^[3] who were important in the life of the colony in the early twentieth century.

Avenue Dorothée Lima is named in his honour in Cotonou, Benin.

References

1. Manning, Patrick (2004). Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-521-52307-3.
2. Campbell, W. Joseph (1998). The Emergent Independent Press in Benin and Côte D'Ivoire: From Voice of the State to Advocate of Democracy. Westport: Praeger. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-275-96309-5.
3. Salhi, Kamul. (Ed.) (2000). Francophone Studies: Discourse and Identity. Exeter: Elm Bank Publications. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-902454-05-4.