Mawupé Valentin Vovor

Mawupé Valentin Vovor (29 October 1923 – 2 January 1992) was a Togolese medical doctor, academic figure and politician. He was born in Kpalime (Kloto district, northwest of Lome – Plateaux Region) in 1923 and died in Paris in 1992. Vovor studied Biology and Medicine in Montpellier and Dijon (France). He served as professor of Medicine of the French universities (1965), and was the first sub-Saharan African member of the French Academy of Surgery (1973). Vovor created and contributed to the creation of number of schools of medicine across francophone sub-Saharan Africa. He taught Surgery and Gynecology in Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Senegal and Togo.

Vovor was married to Emilia Moreira and father of three daughters and two sons. Their children include Sika Bella Kaboré, who has served as the First Lady of Burkina Faso since 2015 as the wife of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.