Name Mamadou Bah | ||
Mamadou Boye Bah is a Guinean political figure and economist and was one of the leading opponents of the presidents Sékou Touré and Lansana Conté.
Bah had originally worked in the Touré government in the early 1960s and in the late 1960s worked for the World Bank in Conakry. However, in 1969 he was arrested for allegedly conspiring against the president Sékou Touré and was sent into exile.
When Touré died in 1984, Bah returned to Guinea and formed the Union for the New Republic and become active in the opposition against the military backed government of Lansana Conté. He was presidential candidate for the UNR in the December 1993 elections in Guinea and promised to pursue economic and educational development. In the end he received 13% of the vote. In the 1990s his UNR party became affiliated with the Party for Renewal and Progress party led by Siradou Diallo as they both shared a distrust of General Conté's government. Approaching the 2001 elections in Guinea, Bah formed a coalition party the Movement against the Referendum and for a Political Alternative (MOMAD) and demanded a boycott of the elections as he believed the process was plagued with corruption and appealed to other nations for assistance.