In six months, Sylvanus Olympio’s struggle for economic sovereignty had been wiped out. From the French point of view, everything returned to normal, in the sense of the ‘normalisation of relations between Paris and Lomé’. In 1967, Lieutenant Colonel Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrew President Grunitzky. He remained in power until his death in 2005 and was succeeded by one of his sons, Faure Gnassingbé. Fifty-five years later, the responsibility for the murder of Sylvanus Olympio remains unknown, since the French and American archives have never been opened.

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