Hamilton Dia Houphouët-boignyHamilton Dia HouphouëtSenghor ergriff die Initiative und schickte gleich nach den Januarwahlen Mamadou Dia zu Houphouet-Boigny nach Abidjan. Aber noch einmal blockierte die französische Innenpolitik den Weg Afrikas: Die UDSR (Fraktionspartner der RDA) unterstützte die mit Müh' und Not siegreiche „Republikanische Front“ Guy Mollets. Félix Houphouët-Boigny ( 18 October 1905 – 7 December 1993), affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux (The Old One), was the first. Nov 21, 2012 - „Schon vor seiner Geburt wurde der Junge seiner Mutter durch eine Frau des Dorfes angekündigt, die verlangte, man solle ihm den Namen Dia geben, was bedeutet: der, der die Zukunft voraussieht. Und so wurde aus Dia Houphouët der Weise von Afrika, der hellsichtige Magier, dem die Zukunft immer. Alternative Title: Dia Houphouët Félix Houphouët-Boigny, (born Oct. 18, 1905?,, Côte d’Ivoire, French West Africa—died Dec. 7, 1993, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire), politician and physician who was of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) from independence in 1960 until his death in 1993. Under his rule it became one of the most prosperous nations in sub-Saharan Africa. The son of a wealthy Baule, Houphouët-Boigny worked as a rural doctor and pursued a second career as a wealthy planter. He began his political career as a cofounder of the African Agricultural Syndicate, formed by disgruntled African planters (1944) to protect their interests against European settlers. In the first Côte d’Ivoire elections (1945) he was elected a deputy to the French National Assembly and was easily reelected in 1946. That year he also founded the (PDCI); this party was with the and was an important component of the interterritorial French West African Federation party, the, of which he was also president. In the late 1940s the French administration became increasingly hostile to the PDCI, especially after the Communist Party went into opposition in, and in October 1950 Houphouët-Boigny decided to break his party’s ties with the Communists and to cooperate with the French, all the time building up his party’s strength and organization through successive elections. In the period from 1956 to 1960 he divided his time between France, where he was a member of the and a cabinet minister, and Côte d’Ivoire, where he was president of the territorial assembly and mayor of as well as overall party leader. Meanwhile, he strongly rejected the idea of a West African federation of independent states because he was unwilling to have the wealthy Côte d’Ivoire subsidizing its poorer neighbours. When President in 1958 offered French territories a referendum on whether to join a new federal or to become independent, Houphouët-Boigny campaigned successfully for self-government within the French Community.
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