Word: abidjan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slow Benelli's frenetic pace. Somehow he even finds time to promote a favorite cause: helping to wipe out illiteracy in underdeveloped nations by upgrading the educational programs of Catholic missions. Last week he flew off to the Ivory Coast to dedicate a new seminary in Abidjan. The trip was expected to take him to other African countries on still another act of service for Paul VI: exploring a possible papal visit to that continent later this year...
...situation is worse in French-speaking West Africa. In all nine countries (pop. 26 million), there are only two universities, Senegal's University of Dakar, and the Ivory Coast's University of Abidjan, together enrolling fewer than 3,000 students. Though Senegal's economy is almost completely grounded on farming, there is no school of agriculture at the brightly flowered, Dakar campus. In the Congo (Léopoldville), the University of Lovanium proudly displays one of Africa's few nuclear reactors. As a result, it has dozens of black students solving mysteries of nuclear physics, only...
...same time, the rate of new local and foreign business investment (Renault, Esso, Unilever) has more than doubled to $100 million yearly. Last week businessmen and government officials from a dozen African countries rounded off a ten-day technical exposition sponsored by France, which picked the sophisticated capital of Abidjan for its first such show in Black Africa...
...Along Abidjan's wide, tree-shaded boulevards and cloverleaf expressways, new apartment houses and office buildings are rising by the score. Later this year construction will begin on the capital's biggest single project yet, part of Houphouët's plan to make Abidjan and the surrounding countryside the latest In place for the international set. Designed by Los Angeles Architect William Pereira (TIME cover, Sept. 6, 1963), it is a 10,000-acre, $300 million resort complex that will have 15 hotels, a 27-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones, four shopping centers...
Houphouët maintains tight press and radio censorship but is relatively gentle with his political opponents. When University of Abidjan students organized a march on his palace, protesting his conservative policies, Houphouët had the demonstrators taken to a military camp and put on a stiff regimen of calisthenics until they meekly asked to return to classes. Older opponents are summoned to Houphouët's plantation 170 miles from the capital and given a friendly, fatherly talk-and sometimes a government appointment or a case of Houphouët's favorite champagne...