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1) The main language is French.
2) Language family : Indo- European, it’s a Romance language, Latin origin

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1) The main religion is Christianity (mostly Catholic and Evangelical). It is a diffused religion because The natives of the country practice West African traditions and practices.

2) Christianity- one of the biggest universalizing religions

Islam- a universalizing religion

West African Practices- it is a ethnic religion.

3) Christianity is a very large religion, one of the most known in the world. It is monotheistic. Meaning they believe in ONE God. Christian worship involves praising God in music and speech, readings from scripture, prayers of various sorts, a sermon, and various holy ceremonies such as the Eucharist. Their sacred text is The Bible. Christianity combines the Jewish Old Testament with the New Testament to form the Christian Bible. The architecture of the worship place are large, with color paint washed looking windows with old Christian stories on them.

4) Place of worship: https://goo.gl/images/nXDtBg

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1) The Akan and Voltaique peoples are the largest of Ivory Coast's many ethnic groups. The Akan people speak Akan, in the language family Niger-Congo. Akan religion is referred to as Akom (from the Twi word okom, meaning "hunger"). They come from East/ Central Africa.

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d. WHAT ROLES DO WOMEN PLAY IN YOUR COUNTRY?

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d. WHAT ROLES DO WOMEN PLAY IN YOUR COUNTRY?

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1) Many displaced women assume new roles as primary breadwinners for their families. Majority of the population subsists from agriculture, only 18% of farmland is owned by women. In Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s top producer of cacao and cashews, a woman is usually obliged to make arrangements with her family or husband in order to cultivate food crops. Ivorian women remain marginalized, often without access to basic social services.

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1) Two examples of folk culture in my country would be the yam festival, a time of thanksgiving for good harvests and an opportunity to remember the discovery of the yam. One of Côte d'Ivoire's most famous festivals involving food is the Festival of Masks, which takes place in villages in the Man region every February. The second example would be the Carnival in Bouaké is filled with festivities and food. Côte d'Ivoire's major Muslim holiday, Ramadan, is a month-long celebration during which everyone fasts between sunup and sunset in accordance with the fourth pillar of Islam, and then ends the fast with a huge feast.

Picture: https://goo.gl/images/A2AR4K

2) An example of pop culture is one of Côte d'Ivoire's most famous festivals is the Fêtes des Masques (Festival of Masks), which takes place in the region of Man. Numerous small villages in the region hold contests to determine the best dancers and to pay homage to forest spirits who are embodied in the elaborate masks. Another example is in April, the Fête du Dipri in Gomon, near Abidjan. This festival starts around midnight, when women and children sneak out of their huts and, naked, carry out nocturnal rites to exorcise the village of evil spells. Before sunrise the chief appears, drums pound and villagers go into trances. The frenzy continues until late afternoon of the next day.

Picture: https://goo.gl/images/RnyTSE

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The last few months have seen a series of deadly attacks against a police station, one of the main military bases of the country, several army positions and a power station. Violence also broke out in the west. Although these incidents do not pose a direct threat to stability, they show that, for some segments of the population, the war is not yet over.

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The anonymous land ruled by a military dictator, where children are starving, dust rises in the heat and there isn’t a skyscraper or cellphone in sight. (“The Young Pope” was actually shot outside Cape Town, which has no shortage of both.) You would not know, from most Western media, that Africans live in a whole range of places, bucolic or bustling and that Africa is urbanizing faster than anywhere on earth. This relates to folk culture turning to popular culture as Africa turns into a city. No longer a traditional place.

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https://www.ethnologue.com/country/CIhttps://www.ethnologue.com/country/CI - December 13th, 2017

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/religious-beliefs-in-ivory-coast.html - December 13th, 2017

https://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Akan-People.pdf - December 14th, 2017

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/research/livelihoods-gender-and-displacement-in-cote-divoire/amp/ - December 14th, 2017

http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/08/06/women-of-cote-d-ivoire-speak-out - December 14, 2017

http://www.everyculture.com/Bo-Co/C-te-d-Ivoire.html - December 14, 2017

https://www.africaguide.com/country/ivoryc/culture.htm - December 14th, 2017

https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/west-africa/côte-divoire/cote-d-ivoire-defusing-tensions - December 14th, 2017

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/arts/design/architecture-of-independence-in-africas-fast-growing-cities.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FIvory%20Coast&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=collection&referer=https://www.nytimes.com/topic/destination/ivory-coast -December 14th, 2017