found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 9, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bakary, Djibo; prime minister, political figure; born 1922 in Soudouré, Niger; graduated as a teacher from colonial William Ponty school in Senegal (1941); worked as a teacher in Niamey and the city of Agadez (1945); established a local section of the Parti Progressiste Nigérien in Zinder (1946); supported the PPN's affiliation to the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain; assumed the position of PPN secretary general (1947); left the PPN-RDA and engaged in union work (1951); gained position in World Federation of Trade Unions; initiated Niger's first mass strike action (1953); reentered the political scene with the Union Démocratique Nigérienne (UDN) (1954); became Niamey's first mayor (1956); won the first general elections under universal suffrage (1957); was appointed prime minister, forming Niger's first autonomous government under the supervision of the colonial governor; forced to step down (1958); forced into exile (1959); threatened with assassination in Bamako, moved to Ghana (1962); when Kwame Nkrumah was toppled in Ghana, he fled to the Bulgarian legation in Accra, from where he made his escape abroad; returned from exile to Niger (1974); was under house arrest (1975-1984); attempted a comeback, but failed in the elections (1993); died 16 April 1998 in Niamey, Niger)
