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...wants no part of their merger), crowds have tagged their own strongman with the simple name of "Vive." The name could not be more apt: few men in the kaleidoscopic politics of French Africa have shown a greater talent for survival than 53-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny...
...whites as between Africans themselves. For generations French West Africans have feared the Senegalese, who were among the first to join the French in subduing them. The Senegalese in turn fear the lean, desert-dwelling Moors, who are fighting men with a long tradition of trading in slaves. In Houphouet-Boigny's Ivory Coast there have been recent race riots against African immigrants from Togoland and Dahomey...
...federation might well have been larger, had it not beea for the opposition of another ambitious African ruler -Felix Houphouet-Boigny, strongman in the Ivory Coast, and the only African of ministerial rank in De Gaulle's government. Houphouet-Boigny is afraid that his Ivory Coast, the richest country in the area, might have to foot most of the bills. He not only kept the Ivory Coast out, but persuaded Niger to stay out, too. His lobbyists were less successful in the Voltaic Republic, though they had recently sent a truckload of wedding gifts to the emperor...
Another loser in the riots was the Ivory Coast's Political Boss Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who lives in Paris as the only black African in Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet. He has long ruled the Ivory Coast as a personal fief, and when he ordered it to vote yes in the De Gaulle referendum, 99% of the voters obligingly did so. As he prepared last week to fly home, Houphouet-Boigny sent a message ahead of him that was read to a public meeting...
...Said Houphouet-Boigny: "In tears, disgraced, I ask you not to proceed with the expulsion of our brothers from Dahomey and Togoland until I shall be with you. Then we shall talk and find a solution to this problem." Roared the crowd with one voice: "No! No!" Only the presence of police and army reinforcements from other territories prevented the riots from bursting forth again...