[2] He taught at secondary schools at Cahors, Dakar and Porto-Novo before travelling to Paris to pursue a writing career.

He also chose several relative newcomers, like Bertin Borna under the Labor and Civil Service, and Tévoédjrè, the new Information Minister.

[4] At this position he began suspending the publication of Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin's opposition newspaper, Dahomey-Matin, and its predecessor, Cotonou-Matin, in April 1961.

[6] Maga ultimately released them in November 1962, saying in a broadcast[note 1] that it was not only due to their good behavior in jail but also to reconcile with his former enemies.

In July 1961, he was granted a 30-kilowatt transmitter, seven times more powerful than that owned by Radio Dahomey, by the Division of Information of the Company of Broadcasting of France of Overseas (SORAFOM).

On 28 October Chief of Staff of the 800-man Dahomeyan Army Christophe Soglo took control of the country[8] to prevent a civil war.

[9] No longer a member of Beninese politics, in 1964 Tévoédjrè was appointed to work at the International Affairs Center at Harvard University.