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Marie Koré
Marie Koré born Zogbo Céza Galo Marie (died 1953) was an Ivory Coast independence fighter. She was arrested while leading the Women's march on Grand-Bassam on 24 December 1949. She died young and she has appeared on her country's banknotes. One poll said that she was the most well known woman in the Ivory Coast. Life She was born in 1912 or maybe 1910. She came from a village which is now part of a settlement named Gohra near the town of Gboguhé. She went to Basse-Côte, where she met and married a Frenchman but they were soon divorced because of her politics. She started an Allocodrome in Treichville which is a restaurant that serves fried plantain. She met René Sery Koré who was already married but she bought presents for his wife and she agreed that she could become his second polygamous wife. However, as far as her supporters were concerned she was his only wife. By 1947 she was even more politically active and she was elected to be the President of the women's commit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's March On Grand-Bassam
The women's march on Grand-Bassam was a 1949 women's protest against the French colonial rulers of Ivory Coast. In December 1949 anticolonial PDCI-RDA political leaders, imprisoned without trial in Grand-Bassam jail, started a hunger strike. Calling for their husbands to be released, a multiethnic coalition of women marched 30 miles from Abidjan to Bassam. Though official accounts at the time gave the number as 500 women, the actual number participating has subsequently been estimated to be two thousand. The women left Abidjan on 22 December 1949, organized in small groups to evade colonial obstruction. On 24 December, French soldiers stopped and beat women as they were approaching the prison. Forty protestors were injured, and four women were prosecuted. No prisoners were released. The march was the subject of Henriette Diabaté's first book. In 1999 a monument to the women was raised in Place de la Paix in Grand-Bassam. The statue's dedication reads: 'To our valiant women who, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gboguhé
Gboguhé is a town in western Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture and commune of Daloa Department in Haut-Sassandra Region, Sassandra-Marahoué District Sassandra-Marahoué District (, ) is one of fourteen administrative districts of Ivory Coast. The district is located in the central part of the country. The capital of the district is Daloa. Creation Sassandra-Marahoué District was created in a .... In 2014, the population of the sub-prefecture of Gboguhé was 58,103. Villages The 36 villages of the sub-prefecture of Gboguhé and their population in 2014 are: Notes Sub-prefectures of Haut-Sassandra Communes of Haut-Sassandra {{Sassandra-Marahoué-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treichville
Treichville is a neighborhood in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It is one of the 10 urban communes of the city. Treichville is one of four communes of Abidjan that are entirely south of Ébrié Lagoon, the others being Port-Bouët, Koumassi, and Marcory. Treichville is known as one of the most lively neighborhoods in Abidjan, especially around the ''Crossroad France-Amérique''. The streets in Treichville do not have names but are numbered from 1 to 47. The commune is served by a railway station belonging to the RAN. The railway offers a passenger service to Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso, which takes around 30 hours. The Autonomous Port of Abidjan is located in Treichville. Treichville's name comes from Marcel Treich-Laplène (1860–1890), who was a French resident in Ivory Coast. Its current mayor, first elected at the municipal election in March 2001, is François Amichia, former minister of tourism. In March and April 2011, Treichville was caught up in the 2010–2011 Ivorian cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Democratic Rally
African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: ** People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa *** List of ethnic groups of Africa *** Demographics of Africa *** African diaspora ** African, an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to the African Union ** Citizenship of the African Union ** Demographics of the African Union **Africanfuturism ** African art ** *** African jazz (other) ** African cuisine ** African culture ** African languages ** African music ** African Union ** African lion, a lion population in Africa Books and radio * ''The African'' (essay), a story by French author J. M. G. Le Clézio * ''The African'' (Conton novel), a novel by William Farquhar Conton * ''The African'' (Courlander novel), a novel by Harold Courlander * ''The Africans'' (radio program) Music * "African", a song by Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Binlin Dadié
Bernard Binlin Dadié (10 January 1916 – 9 March 2019) was an Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet, and governmental administrator. Starting in 1957, he held many governmental positions in the Côte d'Ivoire, including Minister of Culture from 1977 to 1986. Biography Dadié was born in Assinie, Côte d'Ivoire, and attended the local Catholic school in Grand Bassam and then the Ecole William Ponty. He worked for the French government in Dakar, Senegal, at the Institut français d’Afrique noire, then returned to his homeland in 1947. He became part of its movement for independence. Before Côte d'Ivoire's independence in 1960, he was detained for sixteen months for taking part in demonstrations that opposed the French colonial government. In his writing, influenced by his experiences of colonialism as a child, Dadié attempts to connect the messages of traditional African folktales with the contemporary world. With Germain Coffi Gadeau and F. J. Amon d'Aby, he founded the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Mockey
Jean-Baptiste Mockey (14 April 1915 – 29 January 1981) was an Ivorian politician. He was Deputy Prime Minister under Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Despite this, radical nationalists, led by Mockey, openly opposed the government's Francophile policies.Nandjui, p. 44. To solve this problem, Houphouët-Boigny decided to get rid of Mockey by exiling him in September 1959, claiming that Mockey had attempted to assassinate him using maleficent fetishes in the "''complot du chat noir''" (black cat conspiracy).Nandjui, p. 45. Notes References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mockey, Jean-Baptiste Government ministers of Ivory Coast 1915 births 1981 deaths Ivorian exiles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
