Word: africain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave Houphouet (he later added Boigny, which means "battering ram" in his native Baoule tongue) an itch for politics; in the 19405 he formed Ivory Coast's first political party, later organized nationalist politicians in all French West Africa territories into one large political group, the Rassemblement Democratique Africain. For a time. Houphouet-Boigny's RDA was allied with the French Communists, but eventually he dropped his Red friends; bv then, he was a Deputy in the French National Assembly, later held seats (Minister of State. Minister of Public Health and Population) in the French Cabinet...