History of Ivory Coast
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Human arrival in Ivory Coast has been dated to the Upper Paleolithic period, or at the minimum, the Neolithic period based on weapon and tool fragments, specifically polished shale axes and remnants o
Commander E. Bouët-Willaumez and the chiefs of the Krou coast in trade negotiations
Louis-Gustave Binger in 1892 treaty signing with Famienkro leaders.
Louis-Gustave Binger
Samori Touré
French West Africa
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French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan, French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, Dahomey, and Niger. The federation
History of Ivory Coast
…population, especially in the interior, considered the tax a humiliating symbol of submission. From 1904 to 1958, Ivory Coast was a constituent unit of the Federation of French West Africa. It was a colony and an overseas territory under the Third Republic. Until the period following World War II, governmental affairs in French West Africa…
Afrique occidentale française Commercial Relations Report, showing the profile of a Fula woman, January–March 1938
The former Governor's palace on Gorée Island, Dakar, Senegal
A gathering of former governors of Senegal in Paris, 1950s
Native Africans forced into labor for the construct of the Guinée railway, 1904