Hama Amadou, a West African politician who alternated stints in high office in Niger with prison and exile, a reflection of his country’s turbulent politics, died on Oct. 24 in Niamey, the capital. He was 74. His death in a hospital, from malaria, w

Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, a Senegalese civil servant and politician who became the first Black African to head a major international organization when he was elected director general of UNESCO, but whose contested tenure there led the United States and B