Word: ivoirian
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...promiscuous party girl who lived like a slob and took strange men back to the house? Did she, as Italian prosecutors allege, cut Kercher's throat after she refused to take part in group sex with Knox; Knox's boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito; and Rudy Guede, an Ivoirian now serving a 30-year prison sentence for the murder? Or was Knox, as friends and family in Seattle insist, a hardworking honors student railroaded by incompetent and overzealous police work? Testifying on June 12 for the first time, Knox fought back in her own words, claiming that...
...maintain power, Bedie manipulated xenophobic tendencies unleashed by political competition and championed a notion of "Ivoirite," which distinguished "real" Ivorians from latecomers to this prosperous nation. Immigrants from neighboring countries constitute nearly a quarter of the Ivoirian population and were vital in forging the country's economic success. Yet to Bedie, to be a "true" Ivorian, one's parents and grandparents must have been born in the country. By championing Ivoirite, Bedie sought to isolate the large immigrant population and the mainly Muslim northern part of the country that supported Alassane Ouattara, leader of the Assembly of Republicans, the largest...
...that has brought political turmoil. Its initial economic successes had attracted millions of immigrants from neighboring countries, but the downturn has spawned a wave of nationalism that underlies much of the current crisis. Outtara was kept out of the last elections on the grounds that his parents were not Ivoirian, and Gbagbo espouses the same Ivoirian nationalism as ousted President Konan Bédié. Even if the latest political impasse is resolved, the deeper currents that it reflects will haunt the Ivory Coast for some time to come...
...students there to give them any great feeling of nationality. A desparate teacher shortage has kept French instructors in control of nearly all the secondary schools, and much of the say over what is going to be taught still comes from Paris. The lycees teach more Cartesian logic than Ivoirian problems, dispensing much that means little to life so far from France...
...massive; as a student, a tribal noble, and an artist, he claims at least three distinctions. People who talk with him talk on his own terms. To other Ivoirian students, he is sophisticated and French. To outsiders, he is a passionate defender of the Atye ways...
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