Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson (born 26 December 1958) is a Togolese politician, lawyer and human rights activist, and the first woman to stand as a candidate in a presidential election in her country.
[1][3] Adjamagbo-Johnson was a founding member of the Convention démocratique des peuples africains (CDPA), and was the general rapporteur for its 1991 its National Conference.
[4] In 2010, Adjamagbo-Johnson was the head of the opposition Democratic Convention of African Peoples party, and the first woman to stand as a candidate in a presidential election in her country.
[2] Writing on the African Feminist Forum, Adjamagbo-Johnson says, "My journey with feminism began quite early in life as my awareness increased of the inequalities and oppression of women in my family environment, my neighborhood and in society in general".
In a televised address, the prosecutor Essolissam Poyodi claimed to have uncovered opposition "documents that contained a plan to destabilise the country".