Rita Mensah Amendah
Rita Mensah-Amendah (1940 – 18 December 2025) was a Togolese writer and teacher. Mensah-Amendah studied classical letters and English at the École normale d'instituteurs de Metz in France before teaching in Togo. Upon her retirement from teaching in 1996, she devoted her time to the Centre de recherche, d'information et de formation pour la femme and to campaigning against violence against women.
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Rita Mensah Amendah
- Name
- Rita Mensah-Amendah
- Born
- 1940
- Birthplace
- Dakar, Colony of Senegal, French West Africa
- Place of death
- Lomé, Togo
- Occupation
- Teacher Writer
- Education
- École normale d'instituteurs de Metz (Lic.)
- Died
- 2025 · Lomé.
- Nationality
- Togo
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Rita Mensah-Amendah (1940 – 18 December 2025) was a Togolese writer and teacher. Mensah-Amendah studied classical letters and English at the École normale d'instituteurs de Metz in France before teaching in Togo. Upon her retirement from teaching in 1996, she devoted her time to the Centre de recherche, d'information et de formation pour la femme and to campaigning against violence against women.
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Mensah-Amendah died in Lomé on 18 December 2025, at the age of 85.
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• Name — Rita Mensah-Amendah • Born — 1940 • Birthplace — Dakar, Colony of Senegal, French West Africa • Place of death — Lomé, Togo • Occupation — Teacher Writer • Education — École normale d'instituteurs de Metz (Lic.)
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• Mosaïques africaines: chroniques féminines (2003) • Faits divers et d'espoir (2010) • Fleur vive (2022)
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1940
Rita Mensah Amendah born at Dakar.
2025
Rita Mensah Amendah died at Lomé.
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- 1.Patrick Amendah et le Togo en deuil. Le Correcteur. 19 December 2025.
- 2.Rita MENSAH-AMENDAH. University of Western Australia.
- 3.Rita Mensah Amendah. Africultures.
- 4.Nécrologie : Rita MENSAH-AMENDAH a rendu définitivement sa plume. Interfaxpress. 19 December 2025.
- 5.Amenda Rita Mensah. Haverford University.
- 6.Faits divers et d'espoir. University of Western Australia.
- 7.Avuletey, Kodjo. Littérature : Fleur vive, une poésie vive. Le Nouveau Reporter. 25 July 2025.
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Rita Mensah Amendah is recorded as writer, teacher, film director, activist and consultant.
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