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 "slug": "modibo-keita",
 "label": {
  "ar": "موديبو كيتا",
  "en": "Modibo Keïta",
  "ur": "مودیبو کیتا"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "سياسي مالي (1915–1977) من باماكو، بدأ معلما ثم شارك في تأسيس الاتحاد السوداني، وصار رئيس وزراء اتحاد مالي سنة 1959 ثم أول رئيس لمالي المستقلة (1960–1968) مطبّقا اشتراكية إفريقية وقائدا في حركة عدم الانحياز ومنظمة الوحدة الإفريقية، حتى أطاح به موسى تراوري سنة 1968 فسُجن ومات في سجنه بباماكو في 16 مايو 1977.",
  "en": "Malian politician (1915–1977) from Bamako who began as a teacher, co-founded the Sudanese Union, became prime minister of the Mali Federation in 1959 and then first president of independent Mali (1960–1968), applying African socialism and leading in the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organisation of African Unity, until Moussa Traoré overthrew him in 1968; he was imprisoned and died a prisoner in Bamako on 16 May 1977.",
  "ur": "مالی سیاست دان (1915ء–1977ء)، باماکو سے؛ استاد کے طور پر آغاز کیا، سوڈانی یونین کے شریک بانی بنے، 1959ء میں مالی فیڈریشن کے وزیرِ اعظم اور پھر آزاد مالی کے پہلے صدر (1960ء–1968ء) رہے، افریقی سوشلزم نافذ کیا اور غیر وابستہ تحریک اور تنظیمِ وحدتِ افریقہ میں قیادت کی، حتیٰ کہ 1968ء میں موسی تراورے نے انھیں ہٹا دیا؛ قید ہوئے اور 16 مئی 1977ء کو باماکو میں قید ہی میں انتقال ہوا۔"
 },
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 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
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 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1915.4198238156841,
  "latest": 1977.3731835697884
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1915-06-04",
   "hijri": "1333",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his birth on 4 June 1915 in Bamako-Coura, Bamako, then in French Sudan; the Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-modibo-keita-en",
    "source/wikidata-modibo-keita"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1977-05-16",
   "hijri": "1397",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article gives his death on 16 May 1977, still a prisoner after the 1968 coup, and its infobox gives the place as Bamako; Wikidata carries the same date and Bamako among its place-of-death values. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-modibo-keita-en",
    "source/wikidata-modibo-keita"
   ]
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  "names": [
   {
    "value": "Modibo Keïta",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "موديبو كيتا",
    "kind": "full"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "teacher",
   "politician"
  ],
  "born": {
   "edtf": "1915-06-04",
   "hijri": "1333",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his birth on 4 June 1915 in Bamako-Coura, Bamako, then in French Sudan; the Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikidata-modibo-keita"
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "1977-05-16",
   "hijri": "1397",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article gives his death on 16 May 1977, still a prisoner after the 1968 coup, and its infobox gives the place as Bamako; Wikidata carries the same date and Bamako among its place-of-death values. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikidata-modibo-keita"
   ]
  },
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "FLAGGED — family-framing only, for the founder's word (the family-framing configuration of khan-abdul-ghaffar-khan, wave 70 §B, and shehu-shagari, wave 73 §A). The English article's text attaches Islam to his family, not to him: 'His family were Malian Muslims who claimed direct descent from the Keita dynasty.' The Arabic article's text says the same of the family. His political ideology is described as a synthesis including Islamism — a programme, not a personal affiliation. Both articles file him under Malian Muslims and Muslim socialists, and Wikidata gives a single structured value, Islam. No text used attests Keïta himself as a Muslim, and none names a school, so under the two-source rule the value stays unknown with the readings preserved.",
    "sources": [
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     "source/wikipedia-modibo-keita-ar",
     "source/wikidata-modibo-keita"
    ]
   }
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   "wikidata": "Q313240"
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   "source/wikidata-modibo-keita"
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Modibo Keïta' (revision 1369598901 of 16 August 2026), Arabic Wikipedia 'موديبو كيتا' (revision 76480090 of 8 September 2026) and Wikidata item Q313240 (item revision 2560678819 of 25 October 2026), read via the MediaWiki API on 26 October 2026; every article was fetched by its recorded revision id and the returned id asserted equal before any claim was drawn, and the Wikidata item revision was read from the API itself (its date is internally coherent). Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (keita — the hits are the footballers Salif and Seydou Keïta and the musician Salif Keita, different men), by Arabic label, by biography and by the QID route across data/person/ — no earlier record exists. His Arabic label موديبو كيتا shares only the first name with person/modibo-adama (موديبو أداما) — no exact-label collision, so no homonym entry arises. No place entity exists for Bamako, so no born_in or died_in edge is written; he was Mali's first president, so there is no predecessor person record and no successor_of edge is written in his record (the edge to him is written in Moussa Traoré's record). Wikidata carries two place-of-death values for him; the English article's infobox gives Bamako, which the record follows.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)",
   "run": "century-additions-75"
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  "status": {
   "review": "published",
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد كيتا ونشأ في باماكو، عاصمة السودان الفرنسي آنذاك، وبدأ عمله معلما سنة 1936 في ظل الحكم الاستعماري الفرنسي. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} وتقول المقالة الإنجليزية إن عائلته من مسلمي مالي المدّعين النسب المباشر إلى سلالة كيتا مؤسسي إمبراطورية مالي في العصور الوسطى — وهو قول عن عائلته يبقيه السجل مميَّزا عن أي شهادة عن الرجل نفسه. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} وتقول المقالة العربية الشيء نفسه عن عائلته. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الدخول إلى السياسة",
     "markdown": "شارك كيتا سنة 1945 في تأسيس الاتحاد السوداني مع مامادو كوناتي، وانضم الاتحاد في السنة التالية إلى التجمع الديمقراطي الإفريقي ليكوّن الاتحاد السوداني-التجمع الديمقراطي الإفريقي. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} ونما حضوره السياسي في الخمسينيات حتى صار سنة 1959 رئيس وزراء اتحاد مالي، الاتحاد قصير العمر بين مالي والسنغال. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "رئيس مالي",
     "markdown": "ولما انهار الاتحاد سنة 1960 وصارت مالي دولة مستقلة، صار كيتا أول رئيس للبلاد الجديدة. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} وجعل حزبه الحزب الرسمي الوحيد وطبّق سياسات اشتراكية قائمة على تأميم واسع، وهي اشتراكية إفريقية تصف المقالة تركيبها بأنها تجمع أفكارا يسارية وتقاليد وطنية وإسلامية سياسية — برنامجا سياسيا لا انتماء شخصيا. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} وفي السياسة الخارجية أيّد حركة عدم الانحياز وأدى دورا مهما في صياغة ميثاق منظمة الوحدة الإفريقية، وتفاوض على اتفاقات باماكو 1963 التي أنهت حرب الرمال بين المغرب والجزائر، وهو ما ترويه المقالة العربية أيضا. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الإطاحة والوفاة",
     "markdown": "ونما السخط في أواخر الستينيات على التدهور الاقتصادي والقمع، فأطاح به موسى تراوري في انقلاب 19 نوفمبر 1968. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} وأرسله تراوري إلى السجن، حيث مات سجينا في 16 مايو 1977، ويعطي صندوق معلومات المقالة الإنجليزية مكان الوفاة باماكو. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} {cite:wikidata-modibo-keita}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- كيانات المصادر المعرّفة المُستشهد بها أعلاه، مسجّلة في `data/source/`."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/modibo-keita",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-26"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and teaching",
     "markdown": "Keïta was born and raised in Bamako, then the capital of French Sudan, and began a career as a teacher in 1936 under French colonial rule. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} The English article records that his family were Malian Muslims who claimed direct descent from the Keita dynasty, the founders of the medieval Mali Empire — a statement about his family, which the record keeps distinct from any attestation about the man himself. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} The Arabic article says the same of his family. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Entering politics",
     "markdown": "In 1945 Keïta co-founded the Sudanese Union with Mamadou Konaté, which the following year joined the African Democratic Rally to form the US-RDA. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} His political prominence grew through the 1950s, and in 1959 he became prime minister of the Mali Federation, the short-lived federation of Mali and Senegal. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "President of Mali",
     "markdown": "When the federation collapsed in 1960 and Mali became an independent state, Keïta became the new country's inaugural president. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} He established the US-RDA as the only official party and implemented socialist policies based on extensive nationalisation, an African socialism whose synthesis the article describes as drawing on leftist ideas, national traditions and Islamism. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} In foreign affairs he supported the Non-Aligned Movement, played an important role in drafting the charter of the Organisation of African Unity, and negotiated the 1963 Bamako Accords that ended the Sand War between Morocco and Algeria, which the Arabic article also recounts. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Overthrow and death",
     "markdown": "Dissatisfaction with economic decline and repression grew in the late 1960s, and on 19 November 1968 Moussa Traoré overthrew him in a coup d'état. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} Traoré sent him to prison, where he died, still a prisoner, on 16 May 1977; the article's infobox gives the place as Bamako. {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} {cite:wikidata-modibo-keita}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/modibo-keita",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-26"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی و سیاست",
     "markdown": "کیتا باماکو میں پیدا و پروان چڑھے اور 1936ء میں استاد بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} انگریزی مضمون کہتا ہے کہ ان کے خاندان کے لوگ مالی مسلمان تھے جو کیتا خاندان سے براہِ راست نسل کا دعویٰ کرتے تھے — یہ قول ان کے خاندان کے بارے میں ہے، خود ان کے بارے میں گواہی نہیں، اور عربی مضمون بھی خاندان ہی کے لیے یہی کہتا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-ar} 1945ء میں انھوں نے سوڈانی یونین کی شریک تاسیس کی، اور 1959ء میں مالی فیڈریشن کے وزیرِ اعظم بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "صدارت و معزولی",
     "markdown": "1960ء میں فیڈریشن ٹوٹنے پر کیتا آزاد مالی کے پہلے صدر بنے؛ افریقی سوشلزم نافذ کیا، غیر وابستہ تحریک میں قیادت کی اور تنظیمِ وحدتِ افریقہ کے منشور کی تیاری اور 1963ء کے باماکو معاہدوں میں اہم کردار ادا کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} 19 نومبر 1968ء کو موسی تراورے نے انھیں ہٹا کر قید کیا، اور وہ 16 مئی 1977ء کو قید ہی میں باماکو میں انتقال کر گئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-modibo-keita-en} {cite:wikidata-modibo-keita}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- اوپر حوالہ شدہ معرف ماخذ اکائیاں، `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/modibo-keita",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
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  "person/abdul-hussein-dastghaib",
  "person/abdul-latif-chowdhury-fultali",
  "person/abdul-majid-sindhi",
  "person/abdullah-al-alayli",
  "person/abdullah-musawi-shirazi",
  "person/abul-ala-maududi",
  "person/aden-adde",
  "person/ahmad-saeed-kazmi",
  "person/ahmed-ali-assami"
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 }
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