Word: togolands
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...ugly bands of 200 and 300, the black mob surged through the streets of Abidjan (pop. 128,000), capital city of the Ivory Coast, shouting against the black "invaders" from Dahomey and Togoland. Armed with knives, clubs and broken bottles, rioters smashed down any Dahomeyans or Togolanders they met. Houses were looted and set afire and as women fled into the streets, they were dragged off and raped. Native Ivory Coast policemen stood by and watched. Only the Frenchmen in the police force tried to restore order...
...bottom of this outburst of African against African last week lay a deep-seated envy and distrust. All through France's West African territories the best positions in government, business and industry are held by industrious citizens from Togoland and Dahomey. Nearly 100% of the Ivory Coast fisheries are in their hands. As more and more Frenchmen leave technical and administrative jobs, Dahomeyans and Togolanders win the competitions to replace them. Explained a French businessman: "The truth is that the people from Dahomey and Togoland are more intelligent, better trained and educated, more disciplined and harder working than...
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...
...Guinea black Africans voted no and got their independence. In Togoland they did not have to vote, but they won a far brighter victory...
...Togoland is a hot and humid little country lying between Ghana (which won its independence from Britain) and Nigeria (which is about to). The blacks, about 1,100,000 strong, far outnumber Togoland's 2,000-odd Europeans. A former German protectorate, Togoland has, since 1922, been run by the French, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under a U.N. trusteeship. Its hottest politician is Premier Sylvanus Olympic, whose family once were slaves in Brazil...