National integration in Côte d'Ivoire: 1960 - 2002

By N'Guessan Denis Kouakou and Adou Honorat Katte

After sixty years of French colonial rule (1893-1960), C te d'Ivoire gained its independence on 7 August 1960, with a heterogeneous population made up of some sixty different peoples. Nothing predisposed these peoples to a "common destiny" before colonisation. During the first three decades of independence, the policy of national integration adopted by F lix Houphou t-Boigny and the traditions of these peoples fostered relative political and social stability, conducive to national unity. However, since the death of Houphou t-Boigny, C te d'Ivoire has plunged into an unprecedented social fracture linked mainly to political and inter-ethnic conflicts and the coup d' tat of 1999. How did this country, long recognised as a political, economic and social model in an Africa in crisis, become a veritable social fracture after the death of President F lix Houphou t-Boigny? This book invites Ivorians, then Africans and other peoples of the world, to understand the necessity of the issue of national integration in post-colonial African states, in general, and in C te d'Ivoire, in particular.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6207196155
• ISBN13: 9786207196159
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"