Word: abidjan
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...steaming Ivory Coast capital of Abidjan one morning last week, witch doctors in intricately carved masks and grass skirts threw themselves at the feet of a lofty figure clad in the suntans of a French brigadier general. On the edge of a throng that had been pouring into the city since dawn, three ebony maidens displayed bare breasts painted in the French tricolor blue, white and red. With evident delight at the warmth of his welcome, Charles de Gaulle threw his arms wide in a V-for-Victory sign and cried: "Eh bien, eh bien! The community is made...
...Gifts Wanted. The Brazzaville speech contributed mightily to the welcome De Gaulle received at Abidjan, his next stop, though some African political leaders in Dakar had an odd objection. "The general misunderstands us," complained one. "He wants to give us our independence, but we want to wrest it away ourselves...
...West Africa is wholly dependent on France and the French Union for nearly 80% of its trade-France has a reservoir of good will. French West Africa's most noted political leader is Félix Houphouet-Boigny, sophisticated mayor of the Ivory Coast's capital of Abidjan and a minister of state in De Gaulle's Cabinet. Says he: "We don't want independence. My neighbor Nkrumah in Ghana is independent, and as a result must support an army which is very expensive. Who is really independent, anyway...
...Avion!" With its huge exports of cocoa ($30 million a year) and coffee ($60 million), as well as its dense forests, the Ivory Coast is rich by comparison. By sunrise the people of Abidjan are already on their way to work, the men loping along in giant and graceful strides, bantering in a French laced with local slang, e.g., "Avion!" for "Hurry up!", "Japan" for anything shoddy. The symbol of the Coast's progress is the French-financed Felix Houphouet-Boigny Bridge that stretches across the Ebrié Lagoon and supports a four-lane highway and a two-track...
...Senegal, which has fewer than 1,000 students. But the African leaders are opening new schools every day, preparing for a future that seems destined to follow a pattern of its own. Except among a few Berbers in Mauritania, Nasserism has no appeal; and though it is fashionable in Abidjan for ladies to have a picture of Nkrumah's face woven into their dresses, the example of independent Ghana arouses far less excitement than it does in British Africa...