Moussa Okanla

Moussa Okanla (2 September 1950 – 2 March 2022) was a Beninese scholar and diplomat. Okanla was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government named on 17 June 2007, and was replaced by Jean-Marie Ehouzou on 22 October 2008.

== Education ==

He attended primary and secondary schools in his hometown, Porto-Novo, French Dahomey, French West Africa, France, from 1957 through 1971. Then he enrolled in the University of Dahomey (currently University of Abomey-Calavi) where he was awarded the bachelor's degree in History. In 1974 he entered the Master's program at the International Relations Institute of Cameroon Yaounde, he completed the master's degree in 1976. After spending one academic year in Gabon as a lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure du Gabon, Libreville, he entered the doctoral program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Okanla held a PhD in political science, specializing in international relations, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

== Career ==

Okania was latterly a lecturer in Political Science in the University of Abomey-Calavi and a lecturer in International Relations at Houdegbe North American University (Benin). From 1987 to 1994, he was the...