Word: africains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a time when Houphouet-Boigny talked quite differently. In 1949 he called an interterritory congress of French West Africa's most powerful political party, the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, and pledged allegiance to the French Communists and their fight against "the forces of imperialism." Thus encouraged, the Communists began to infiltrate the R.D.A., but so incited its members that bloody riots erupted. The following year, African Deputies in the French Assembly broke with the Communists. Today the influence of Communism is negligible in the political hierarchy of French West Africa...
Biggest and most influential political movement in Black Africa is the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, led by stocky, black-skinned Félix Houphouet-Boigny (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956), an Ivory Coast chieftain who was once ready to fight for independence, but now calls for "self-government within the French Union." A year ago, when Socialist Guy Mollet was named Premier of France, 51-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny became the first West African ever to sit in a French Cabinet. Ever since, Houphouet-Boigny and Mollet's Minister of France Overseas, 46-year-old Gaston...
...Ivory Coast. As long as he stuck to spells, charms and incantations, he was all right. His troubles started when he began to occupy himself with such potent magic as ballot boxes and election campaigns. He took the Christian name Victor, joined the fellow-traveling Rassemblement Democratique Africain, was elected to the French Senate. A small, thin, worried-looking man, the ex-witch doctor did not take to lighthearted Paris, made only a few appearances there, always seemed to his colleagues in the Senate to be thinking of home. Home he went. On some political business on the Ivory Coast...