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Word: ivoirians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1968-1968
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...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...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: The Ivory Coast: Old and New Exist in Awkward Mixture | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: The Ivory Coast: Old and New Exist in Awkward Mixture | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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