France encouraged an increasing closeness with her colonies on the eve of independence and thereafter ... under the leadership of Felix Houphouet-Boigny from the Cote D'Ivoire.

France encouraged an increasing closeness with her colonies on the eve of independence and thereafter ... under the leadership of Felix Houphouet-Boigny from the Cote D'Ivoire.

So Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast was known as ... Listen to Kwame Nkrumah's Independence day speech. This was particularly so at the time of the Belgian Congo's independence.