First signs of Independence disilusionment (27 avr. 1959 – 1 déc. 1959)

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However, his government was immediately confronted with difficulties that c?uld hardly be overcome in this way. The budget had to be severely restncted, taxes raised, and appeal again made to France for aid. Already in 1959 the disillusionments of independence appeared aggravated by the return of Togolese driven out by Ivory Coast xenophobia. Unity among the nationalists was threatened; it exploded in May with the resignation of Santos, the Juvento leader. The regime then had to deal with two oppositions: the Right, unified but losing momentum, and the Left, which had been radical and pugnacious even before independence. The regime was consequently led to break its promises of democracy by arresting its opponents and restricting liberties, thus beginning its relapse into presidential and single-party rule.

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