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 chabi mama beninese politician
chabi mama

chabi mama -lrb- 15 july 1921 -- 2001 -rrb- is a former early beninese politician .
mama became the foreign minister of newly independent dahomey -lrb- now benin -rrb- in 1959 , lasting in that position until 1960 .
he then returned to that position from 1963 to 1964 .
