''La Presse Porto-Novienne'' ('Porto-Novo Press') was a

French language French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...

weekly republican socialist newspaper published from

Porto-Novo Porto-Novo (Portuguese: "New Port", , ; yo, Àjàṣẹ́, ), also known as Hogbonu and Ajashe, is the capital of Benin. The commune covers an area of and as of 2002 had a population of 223,552 people. Situated on an inlet of the Gulf of Gu ...

Dahomey The Kingdom of Dahomey () was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a region ...

(present-day Benin).
Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier
'. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 471 The newspaper was founded in 1931 by Vincent Moreira Pinto.Araujo, Ana Lucia.
Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic
'. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2010. p. 113 It carried subtitles in

Yoruba language Yoruba (, ; Yor. '; Ajami script, Ajami: ) is a language spoken in West Africa, primarily in South West (Nigeria), Southwestern Middle Belt, and Central Nigeria. It is spoken by the Ethnic group, ethnic Yoruba people. The number of Yoruba speake ...

, and had a Yoruba language section (one of very few newspapers at the time to include material in an African language). ''La Presse Porto-Novienne'' had an edgy, militant evocation of journalism. It was denied government subsidies, as it was branded as 'extremist'.Lawrance, Benjamin.
Locality, Mobility, and "Nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960
'. Rochester, NY: Univ. of Rochester Press, 2007. p. 159

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French-language newspapers published in Africa Newspapers published in Benin 1931 establishments in French Dahomey Newspapers established in 1931 Publications with year of disestablishment missing {{benin-stub

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