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During a state visit last week, the Ivory Coast's President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, whom Touré once called a "colonialist puppet." got red-carpet treatment, including an honor guard of paratroopers dressed in improbable raspberry-colored silk uniforms with floral patterns. Before Houphouet-Boigny left for home, a pretty Guinean girl serenaded him with a song in the Malinké dialect that, though it no doubt loses something in translation, told of her yearning...
Political parties: 1. Voters: 92%. Benevolent and anti-Communist Dictator Felix Houphouet-Boigny leads moderate Brazzaville bloc of twelve former French territories. Though unified by Houphouet, villagers have little interest in self-government...
Exports: Coffee, cocoa, bananas, timber. Per capita income: $160. U.S. aid (1961): $2,100,000. Ex-French Africa's strongest economy, world's third largest coffee producer. Houphouet is increasingly irked by U.S. aid to left-leaning neighbor, Ghana...
Orchids to TIME and to Photographer Halsman for including Madame Houphouet-Boigny among a gallery of reigning beauties. For the nation's colored races, it offers an example of "how to succeed in life without being Caucasian...
...schools that Christianity has an influence in West Africa that far exceeds its numerical strength. Although about one-half of West Africans are pagans and only one in a dozen is a baptized Christian, nearly every West African leader, from Ghana's flamboyant Kwame Nkrumah to Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, studied at mission schools. Protestant and Catholic schools of West Africa today have more than 200,000 students-including most sons and daughters of the new nations' urban elite...