Ivory Coast News News Ivory Coast » Culture: Meet Ivory Coast’s masochistic supporters: They might disown their team – but they always come back for more
As part of a special World Cup series, The Athletic is speaking to fans of all 48 competing nations to capture their unique football culture ...
News Ivory Coast » Culture: France returns a sacred drum looted during the colonial era to Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — France returned a sacred talking drum looted during the colonial period to Ivory Coast on Friday as part of a nearly decade-old effort by the French government to return ...
News Ivory Coast » Culture: Ivory Coast welcomes 'talking drum', first artifact sent back from France
By Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN, March 13 (Reuters) - Traditional chiefs wearing crowns and gold chains gathered at Ivory Coast's main airport on Friday to welcome the return of a "talking drum" ...
News Ivory Coast » Culture: Bishops warn politicians against pushing Ivory Coast to cultivate culture of death
Residents line up in front of an enrollment center in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on June 10, 2014. (Credit: Diomande Ble Blonde/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – With barely seven months until the ...
News Ivory Coast » Culture: Ivory Coast: A portrait of an AFCON host nation given a second chance
On one of the main highways in Treichville, a bustling district in the Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan, people weave in and out of traffic trying to sell you everything you can possibly imagine ...
News Ivory Coast » Culture: France repatriates sacred drum taken from Ivory Coast during colonial rule
A century after it was taken away during the colonial era, a sacred drum central to the traditions of Ivory Coast’s Atchan community has finally been returned from France. French authorities formally ...