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...result of such concessions -and of the obvious fact that French 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...
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...
Congratulations for a good presentation on the new French Cabinet member, Felix Houphouet-Boigny [Feb. 13]. It is refreshing to see old, weary French politicians call on a man from West Africa to rewrite the French Union; even more inspiring to see that they have found for the job a well-trained and well-prepared man who is a good Christian...
Your story refers to Minister Houphouet-Boigny as "the first Negro ever to hold Cabinet rank in France." This is not true. France has had Negro Cabinet members before, and it has accepted them with the same casualness as it has its many black Deputies...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s Ivy correctly states that other Negroes have held Cabinet posts in France. TIME should have said that Minister Houphouet-Boigny is the first West African Negro to achieve Cabinet rank. Two French Negroes held major Cabinet offices before him: Cuban-born Severiano de Heredia, who became a French citizen, Mayor of Paris and Minister of Public Works, 1887; Martinique-born Henri Lémery, who was Minister of Justice...