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==Entering politics== Modibo Keïta was involved in various associations. In 1937, he was the coordinator of the art and theater group. Along with [[Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly|Ouezzin Coulibaly]], he helped found the Union of French West African Teachers. Keïta joined the [[Communist Study Groups]] (GEC) cell in Bamako. In 1943, he founded the ''L'oeil de Kénédougou'', a magazine critical of colonial rule. This led to his imprisonment for three weeks in 1946 at the ''Prison de la Santé'' in Paris. In 1945 Keïta was a candidate for the Constituent Assembly of the [[French Fourth Republic]], supported by GEC and the [[Sudanese Democratic Party]]. Later the same year, he and [[Mamadou Konaté]] founded the ''Bloc soudanais'', which developed into the [[Sudanese Union]].
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