Word: houphouet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premiers of the twelve African states that belong to the French Community solemnly marched up the steps of the Elysee Palace to the accompaniment, of ruffles and nourishes from the silver-helmeted Garde Republi-caine. When they finally marched down again, the Ivory Coast's Premier Felix Houphouet-Boigny beamingly announced: "We are unanimous in approving and supporting President de Gaulle in his Algerian policy as he has revealed it to us." Appetite whetted by such entrancing tidbits, all France waited this week for Charles de Gaulle to disclose his new plan for ending the five-year-old Algerian...
...Houphouet first became the idol of his people shortly after World War II, when he launched a campaign against the French settlers who raided villages for the laborers they needed and then, at harvest's end, paid each victim barely enough to get home again. When the French tried to gather evidence against Houphouet, who was then following the Communist line, they found not a single African who would inform. The French soon gave up the chase-having made a conquest. After throwing off his Communist ties. Houphouet popped up in Paris, became French West Africa's leading...
Three-Way Race. Three great movements are now contending for the political future of French West Africa, a stretch of territory eight times the size of France. One favors a set of small nations, each closely tied with France; this is Houphouet's view, and De Gaulle calls him "a great Frenchman and a great African." At the opposite extreme is Guinea's Sekou...
...start it looked as if Houphouet had been overtaken by history. But behind the scenes he worked agilely to undermine the Mali, freely predicted that the federation would collapse. He is already half right. Fearing to antagonize the Ivory Coast, which hires its workers and is its access to the sea, Upper Volta last winter decided to pull out of Mali. So did Dahomey. Now Houphouet and the leaders of Mali share a common concern over Sekou Toure's ominous flirtation with the Soviet Union and its satellites...
...Home. While in Paris, Houphouet ran his Ivory Coast preserve by longdistance phone, but his followers kept complaining: "When you are not here, we don't do anything." Last month, after his party dutifully won every one of the 100 seats in the Ivory Coast Assembly, Houphouet decided that his influence in Africa would be far greater if he were to quit Paris and become Premier of his country. Last week, as the crowds of Abidjan roared, "Vive! Vive! Vive!", the Assembly installed him in office. The new Premier announced that he would never allow an opposition party that...