Word: houphouet
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...Houphouet-Boigny feels himself a man of destiny. "When my people are free I will return to my plantation, like Washington," he says. A Roman Catholic in a family whose other members still believe in black magic, he is a self-styled ascetic, gave up mangoes at the age of 13 because he liked them too much, has since given up tobacco, alcohol, sports, music, movies, even the coffee which he grows on his plantation. "Every year I force myself to give up something I like." This still leaves him a good deal. In Paris he wears expensive European suits...
People Without Patience. Houphouet-Boigny's idea of a new French Union is some variety of federation, and his model is Britain's neighboring Gold Coast, run by his fellow tribesman Kwame Nkrumah. But Houphouet-Boigny is well aware of the difficulties of providing "freedom" for a territory that is 13 times the size of France, divided among more than 1,000 tribes speaking 600 different tongues, many of them still so primitive that only five years ago a native elected to the French Senate was murdered and eaten by his Ivory Coast constituents. (Most tactless wisecrack...