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Daloa Bete is a member of the Eastern Kru branch of the Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken in western Ivory Coast, mainly in Daloa Department, part of the Haut-Sassandra Region of the Sassandra-Marahoué District. In 1993 there were about 130,000 speakers of Daloa Bete

Daloa Bete is also known as Daloua Bété, Northern Bété or Bété de Daloa. It is one of the Bete languages, a group of closely related languages or dialects spoken mainly in Ivory Coast, and also in Liberia, Nigeria and Ghana.

Daloa Bete is written with a version of the Latin alphabet. A syllabic script for the Bété languages was created in 1956 by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, and is also used to some extent.

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Daloa Bete is a member of the Eastern Kru branch of the Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken in western Ivory Coast, mainly in Daloa Department, part of the Haut-Sassandra Region of the Sassandra-Marahoué District. In 1993 there were about 130,000 speakers of Daloa Bete Daloa Bete is also known as Daloua Bété, Northern Bété or Bété de Daloa.

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Cote d'Ivoire is also known as the Ivory Coast, and is located in West Africa. Llike most African states, the people of Cote d'Ivoire adore football. A football field is common in pretty much every village and every city tends to have at least one football club. The Ivory Coast have hosted many major African sporting games like the African Cup of Nations in 1984 where their national team finished at a respectable 5th place. They have also played in the World Cup in Germany, South Africa and Brazil from 2006 to 2014.

Even though football is still their most popular sport, other team sports like basketball and rugby union are steadily gaining popularity. The Ivory Coast hosted the 1985 African Basketball Championship where they took the gold medal. They recently hosted the same event (2013). Their rugby team is also not a pushover. Their national rugby union team qualified for the 1995 Rugby World Cup held in South Africa.

The Ivory Coast have been participating in the Summer Olympic Games since the 1964 Tokyo Games, missing only the 1980 Moscow Games. To date, the only athlete from Cote d'Ivoire who has won an Olympic medal is Gabriel Tiacoh who took the silver for the men's 400 meters in the 1984 Los Angeles Games.

Below are details of sports, sporting events and sports people related to Ivory Coast. Is there something missing? If you know of something that should be listed here, please make a comment below.

Popular sports of Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast Sporting Success

winners of the Africa Cup of Nations in 1992 and 2015

Athletes from Ivory Coast

Didier Drogba (football)

Yaya Toure (football)

Marie-Josee Ta Lou (Track and Field)

Ivory Coast Sports trivia

the only athlete from Cote d'Ivoire who has won an Olympic medal is Gabriel Tiacoh who took the silver for the men's 400 meters in the 1984 Los Angeles Games.

They have qualified for 3 consecutive World Cups, 2006 - 2014, and in all three cases they failed to move beyond the group stage.

Ivory Coast at major events

Past sporting events hosted in Ivory Coast

1984 African Cup of Nations

1985 African Basketball Championship

2013 World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships

2013 AfroBasket

2017 Jeux de la Francophonie - held in Abidjan

Upcoming sporting events in Ivory Coast

Annual sporting events held in Ivory Coast

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By Honoré Essoh Since gaining independence in 1960, Ivory Coast has remained one of the major crossroads of African music. Over the years, local musicians have successively merged local rhythms with external influences. Stars and their records alike were spotted and exported, but production quality…

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From the soaring grass-clad mountains of Mount Nimba in the north to the lagoons and roaring Atlantic waves of the south, the mist-topped rainforests where chimps live in the west to the sweeping plantations of cocoa and plantains in the east, the Ivory Coast represents one seriously huge slab of West Africa.

Yes, the nation's certainly had its fair share of troubles, with coups and military juntas and Ebola to name just three, but travelers do still come.

The come to hike the empty paths of Taï and Comoe, to sample spicy cassava and cashew curries between the mud-caked streets of Korhogo, to witness curious primates swinging in the trees, and experience the energy of Abidjan - the country's great metropolis of more than four million.

And then there are the beaches, fringed with age-stained French towns and colonial relics, sloping down to the sea in colours of yellow, white and, well, ivory!

1. Grand-Bassam

Proudly touting its UNESCO World Heritage tag, Grand-Bassam bursts forth from the Ivorian coast with the medley of elegant Parisian mansions and crafted colonial municipal buildings that is the Ancien Bassam district.

Now crumbling and creaking with age, this area once reigned as the capital of French Ivory Coast.

Some of the buildings have been returned to their former glory, and visitors can still spy out the great Cathédrale Sacré Cœur and the enthralling Museum of Costume.

New Grand-Bassam is where most of the action takes place today, while the beaches to the west and east are where the resort hotels reside.

2. Abidjan

The sprawling, beating heart of the nation makes its home on the south coast, along the wide coastal reaches of the Ebrié Lagoon.

With more than four million people calling it home, it hails in as the second-largest metropolis in all of West Africa.

And although not officially the capital of Ivory Coast (that honour goes to Yamoussoukro), it's perhaps the better city to go for an introduction to the nation.

Visitors can wander the frenetic streets of the buzzing central Plateau district, see the looming Francophone spires of St.

Paul's Cathedral, hit the National Museum, party down heady Princess Road, eat local cassava curries on the street corners - the list goes on!

3. Man

Springing up from the rain-doused, rugged edges of the soaring Toura Mountains, deep in the heartlands of the country, the rustic town of Man comes surrounded by seemingly endless swathes of verdant plantain farms and cocoa plantations.

The peaks of Tonkoui and Toura - the two highest in Ivory Coast - dominate the horizon, while it's the crashing courses of the Cascades waterfall that really draws the crowds.

Others will come to delve into the famous bamboo forests that filter out from the center, where multi-coloured butterflies flutter by and rare insects inhabit the undergrowth.

4. Taï National Park

A colossal slab of over 3,000 square kilometers is taken up by the vast reserves of the Taï National Park, making it one of the greatest protected areas of what remains of the Upper Guinean rainforests - once the dominant habitat in all of West Africa, ranging from Gabon all the way to Senegal.

A feral land, it's carved with colossal river valleys and dressed in moist woods, spiked with otherworldly inselberg mountains and fringed by rolling savannah.

And then there's the fauna, which includes the endangered pygmy hippopotamus, swinging olive colobus monkeys, duikers and chimpanzees.

5. Jacqueville

Fringed by a stretch of typically Ivorian ivory sands, little Jacqueville spills down into the sea from the far side of the Ebrié Lagoon, it's sun-kissed beaches emerging from the swathes of pineapple groves to meet the frothy rollers of the Atlantic Ocean.

Clusters of old Parisian arcades and colonial builds stand decaying under the shade of the palm trees, while thatched beach huts meet painted timber longboats along the shore.

It's a great place to come and get a feel for the pretty seaside character of this country, and all just a stone's throw to the west of the capital at Abidjan to boot!

6. San-Pédro

San-Pédro's harbours jut out from the southern forests of Ivory Coast like great tendrils poking into the Atlantic waters.

The second-largest port town in the country, this spot on the sea has been churning out huge cargos of metal ores and minerals and fish for decades.

Around it has exploded a lively, energetic and endearingly gritty city of low-rise homes and dusty streets, all interposed with the occasional nightclub and beer bar.

There are also plenty of natural draws beckoning nearby; from the primeval Upper Guinean rainforests of the Taï National Park to the shining beaches of Bas-Sassandra.

7. Yamoussoukro

A visit to Yamoussoukro is a strange experience.

Imbued with wide boulevards and grand open spaces, shiny new (or at least relatively new) governmental buildings and high-rise hotels, the metropolis of 300,000 can seem like a ghost town.

It's worth remembering that it was only chosen as the capital of Ivory Coast back in 1983 - a pet project of President Houphouët-Boigny's, who was actually born here in 1908. Still, there are some interesting sights, and not least of all that colossal Basilica of Our Lady of Peace; the largest Christian church on the planet and a mass of domes and columns that reflects the grandeur of Rome itself!

8. Korhogo

Contrarian Korhogo has a long history of political instability and opposition to the status quo.

It was here that the latest round of coup d'etats unfolded in the early 2000s, with rebel groups proclaiming against the government.

Today, things are a little quieter - or at least as quiet as it's possible to be in forever radical Korhogo! Aside from the revolutionary tendencies, the mud-caked city is a truly fascinating place, bustling with bazaars packed with cotton and cashew nuts and spices, the enchanting Woodcarver's Quarter beckoning with whittled crafts, and the Village des Tisserands (located just a stone's throw away) home to batik cloth makers and more!

9. Bouaké

One of the great crossroads between the Ivorian north and the Ivorian south, Bouaké sits virtually midway between the Atlantic coast, the northern borders, Guinea in the east and Ghana in the west.

And while the national divisions manifest here in the form UN peacekeepers, the city remains something of a fusion of all the various tribal and political influences at work, complete with an earthy character and interesting locals.

It's the markets, the arts and the crafts that really come center stage though.

The whole region of the Eastern Plantations is not only famed for its cotton output, but you'll spot local traders touting black-clay pots around the rises of St Michael's Cathedral, and oodles of other fascinating emporiums to explore.

10. Comoe National Park

Spread-eagle between the northern cities and the Ghanaian borderlands, the sweeping lands of the Comoe National Park are a veritable magnet for ecotourists and outdoorsy types heading to Ivory Coast.

They bloom with weathered gallery forests and rolling savannah plains, the occasional splinter of soaring rock and the winding meanders of the Comoé River.

And around their riparian habitats, visitors can look for the likes of yellow-backed duikers and Mona monkeys, colobuses and pangolins, stalking leopards and stalking lions, and plenty, plenty more!

11. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve

Crawling across the borders of the Ivory Coast and into the wild, wild reaches of southern Guinea, this soaring arch of mountainous peaks is considered by UNESCO to be one of the most important nature reserves in all of West Africa.

Why? Well, the habitats range from rare lowland rainforests to altitudinous grass plains, and that gives rise to one of the most kaleidoscopic line-ups of fauna in the region.

Walkers who make the intrepid journey here (usually from nearby Danane) can expect chimpanzees and rare butterflies, alien toad species and otter shrews to boot.

12. Assouinde

Just a little further along the coast from Grand-Bassam and attached to the metropolis of Abidjan by the main road A100, Assouinde is perhaps the most celebrated beach resort in the country.

Popular with city slickers eager for a break from the fray of the town, the long stretches of yellow sand here host a clutch of great hotels and accommodations.

On the one side, these back onto the mirror-like lagoons and winding waterways of the Lagunes region, and on the other they spill into the Atlantic, where rolling surf and plenty of sunbathing and beachcombing opportunities abound.

13. Sassandra

Another of the favoured gateways to the beach-fringed, salt-sprayed stretches of the Bas-Sassandra district in southern Ivory Coast, the city of Sassandra boasts layer upon layer of colonial history.

With its prime location on the edge of the Gulf of Guinea, it was settled by the Portuguese, the Brits and the French, and established itself as one of the great logging ports in West Africa.

Today, the town is still largely industrialised, but there are also rows of powdery beaches, historic lighthouses and a clutch of local beer bars and cafes to settle in.

14. Marahoué National Park

Recently hitting the headlines due to the unfortunate acceleration of deforestation throughout its boundaries (it's estimated that Marahoué has lost as much as 93% of its woodland cover in the last decade alone!), this small protected reserve close to the capital of Yamoussoukro is the place to go if you're looking to get stuck into the frontline of West African conservation.

Once a home for chimpanzees and large elephant herds, the area's fauna might just be a shade of what it was, but there is now education, awareness-raising and policing operations in action to help turn things around.

15. Abengourou

Abengourou is an interesting stop-off in the extreme east of the Ivory Coast.

One of the ancestral cities of the Akan peoples, it's still got the head house of the town chieftain, which comes adorned with rows of mysterious artifacts and relics.

There are streets of tin shack houses and lively little local markets too, along with a clutch of Christian religious buildings, topped with a large cathedral church.

The Abengourou Airport is also one of the principal entry points for explorations throughout the cocoa fields and plantation lands of the greater region.

Grand-Bassam

Abidjan

Man

Taï National Park

Jacqueville

San-Pédro

Yamoussoukro

Korhogo

Bouaké

Comoe National Park

Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve

Assouinde

Sassandra

Marahoué National Park

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PRONUNCIATION: ih-VWAHR-ee-uhns

ALTERNATE NAMES: Ivorians

LOCATION: West Africa (Côte d'Ivoire)

POPULATION: 14.7 million

LANGUAGE: Approximately 60 ethnic languages, including Akan; Mandé; Gur (Voltaic); Kru; Dioula (the most widely spoken); Baoulé (Akan); Sénoufo (Voltaic); Yacouba (south Mandé); French (official language)

RELIGION: Islam; Christianity (both incorporate traditional indigenous beliefs)

1 * INTRODUCTION

Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is a French-speaking country in West Africa. A number of important kingdoms existed in this area from early times. Early trade with Europe was based on ivory, which gave the country its name-Côte d'Ivoire in French or Ivory Coast in English. The French firmly settled themselves in the region in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1893, Côte d'Ivoire became a French colony, and gained its independence in 1960. The country keeps a close relationship with France.

2 * LOCATION

Côte d'Ivoire, a roughly square-shaped country, is located on the Gulf of Guinea. Covering 124,500 square miles (322,000 square kilometers), it is slightly larger than the state of New Mexico. Most of the country consists of a low plateau, sloping gradually southward to the Gulf of Guinea. The plateau is broken by hills in the North and by the Man Mountains in the West.

The population of Côte d'Ivoire was approximately 15 million in 1997, and it is growing very fast. The capital, Abidjan, has a population of about 2.8 million. More than sixty ethnic groups make up the population of Côte d'Ivoire. Each has its own distinct language or dialect (variety of a language) and customs.

3 * LANGUAGE

The official language of the country is French. It is spoken mostly in the cities and towns and is used in higher education. However, the masses of the people prefer pidgin (popular) French, called Dioula. All of the country's approximately sixty ethnic languages belong to the Niger-Congo family. However, even the most widely spoken language is spoken by only about 23 percent of the population.

4 * FOLKLORE

Each ethnic group has its own traditions and heroes. One of the most famous legends tells the story of how the Baoulé people arrived in Côte d'Ivoire. In their original homeland, Ghana, they wisely had stored grain in case of famine. Then they were attacked by other groups when famine came. Rather than give up the food, their queen, Abla Pokou, led her people west into Côte d'Ivoire. Finding it impossible to cross the Comoé river, the queen sacrificed her own child to the genies (spirits) of the river. They, in turn, caused the trees to bend over the river and form a bridge to a land of peace and safety. The word baoulé means "the little one dies."

5 * RELIGION

Most people in Côte d'Ivoire follow traditional African religions. They honor their ancestors and believe in the spirits of nature. Even followers of Islam and Christianity often combine traditional practices with their religious rites. Sorcery and witchcraft have a strong impact on people, especially in the rural areas. Traditional ceremonies often involve wearing masks. Animal sacrifices and other kinds of sacrifice sometimes play an important role in the ceremonies.

6 * MAJOR HOLIDAYS

August 7 is Independence Day. Both Christian and Muslim (Islamic) holidays are celebrated: Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost; and Eid al-Fitr (the feast at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan ) and Labaski, which occurs seventy days after the end of Ramadan.

7 * RITES OF PASSAGE

Each ethnic group has its own traditions. The major transitions of life-birth, adolescence, marriage, and death-all are marked with ceremonies and rituals. Among the most important are initiation rites. During initiation, participants undergo endurance tests and other secret ceremonies.

Many marriages are arranged, although in the towns and cities more young people now choose their own spouse. Marriage usually takes place early, especially for women and especially in rural areas. Motherhood thus begins at a young age. By age fourteen almost one-half of the girls are married. Divorce and separation are not common.

Funerals are central to several ethnic groups. Among the Akan, when there is a death in a village, all villagers shave their heads. Among the Baoulé, burial is secret, even for someone as illustrious as the first president, Felix Houphouët-Boigny (1905-93).

8 * RELATIONSHIPS

Hospitality and solidarity are a way of life for Ivoirians. The spirit of hospitality and brotherhood is expressed in the Ivoirian national anthem: "land of hospitality ... the homeland of genuine brotherhood."

Men clearly dominate interpersonal relationships. Village elders are traditionally accorded much respect.

9 * LIVING CONDITIONS

Living conditions vary enormously between city and rural dwellers, and according to people's wealth.

Most people still live in villages, usually with dirt roads. Although increasing numbers have electricity, many still live in simple, traditional ways, fetching their own water and firewood. Their houses are cone-shaped and have thatched roofs.

Less than half the population lives in towns and cities. Those who are well-off live in pleasant two-story or three-story houses. Some live in air-conditioned skyscrapers. But most people are poor and live mostly in overcrowded slums without running water, electricity, or other modern conveniences.

10 * FAMILY LIFE

Customs regarding family life vary from one ethnic group to another. Households usually consist of an extended family. Parents and children, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins all share the same home. The average Ivoirian woman has more than seven children. Women are responsibile for taking care of the children.

The law in Côte d'Ivoire allows a man only one wife. In practice, however, almost one-fourth of the men in the country have two or more wives.

11 * CLOTHING

As in most of the developing world, people wear both traditional and Western clothes. In cities and towns, most people wear Western clothing-pants or blue jeans and shirts. However, many women still wear the traditional brightly colored dresses (pagnes) with matching head scarves. Traditional clothing is most common in the rural areas. Women wear pagnes or blouses with long pieces of cloth that they wrap around themselves as skirts. Men wear shorts or wrap short pieces of cloth around their bodies. Many men have long, beautiful robes for ceremonial occasions.

12 * FOOD

Yams, plantains, rice, millet, corn, and peanuts are staple foods in Côte d'Ivoire. However, each region has its specialties. For example, in the northern savanna (treeless plain), a common dish is rice with a peppery peanut sauce. Closer to the coast, fish with fried plantains is popular.

The national dish is fufu. Plantains, cassava, or yams are pounded into a sticky dough. It is then served with a highly seasoned meat or vegetable sauce called kedjenou. Fufu is eaten by hand. Each person takes a fingerful of dough and dips it into the sauce. The sauce may be prepared from peanuts, eggplant, okra, or tomatoes.

13 * EDUCATION

The Ivoirian educational system is an adaptation of the French system. Primary school, which is required, lasts for six years and high school for seven. Children usually start school at age seven. High school education is divided into two stages. The first four years lead to a certificate called the brevet d'étude du premier cycle ( BEPC ). At the next level, graduates earn the baccalauréat. This is roughly equivalent to one or two years of university study in the United States.

Higher education is offered at the university in Abidjan. There are also a number of technical and teacher-training institutes.

14 * CULTURAL HERITAGE

Music, dance, and storytelling are all important in the lives of Ivoirians. There is great variety in dance in the various regions of the country.

Mask dancing is traditionally done by males who have undergone initiation rites. It includes a wide variety of twists, turns, twirls, and handstands, sometimes on tall stilts. The dancer's identity is disguised throughout the ceremony.

Ivoirian theater includes works by playwrights such as Bernard Dadié, Côte d'Ivoire's most famous writer, and François-Joseph Amon d'Aby. The best-known political figure is Félix Houphouët-Boigny. In 1960, he became the country's first president. Houphouët-Boigny wanted a continuing close relationship with France. He promoted agriculture and led Côte d'Ivoire's economy to great success until the 1980s. In spite of charges of government corruption and his expensive lifestyle, Houphouët-Boigny was respected and honored until his death in December 1993. He was succeeded by Henri Konan Bedié.

15 * EMPLOYMENT

Over half the population works in agriculture, a far smaller proportion than in 1960. About one-third of the population works in service-related jobs-more than double the proportion in 1960. A much smaller proportion of the labor force (10 percent) works in industry. These workers process foods and other raw materials and produce goods such as textiles and machinery.

16 * SPORTS

By far the most important sport in Côte d'Ivoire is soccer (called football ). It is played throughout the country.

17 * RECREATION

Ritual ceremonies serve partly as recreation and entertainment. They often include music and dance. Storytelling is another favorite traditional pastime. Griots (story-tellers) may sing or tell folk stories, riddles, and proverbs far into the night.

Movies and theater are also important. Television and radio provide recreation for more and more people, especially in the cities.

18 * CRAFTS AND HOBBIES

The art of Côte d'Ivoire is among the most outstanding in West Africa. Weaving, woodworking, and sculpture are practiced widely. The wooden carvings, and especially the masks, of ethnic peoples are famous for their beauty and complex designs.

Carving doors, furniture, statues, and other decorative objects form part of people's daily lives. Percussion and stringed musical instruments are also made, as well as various wind instruments of wood, metal, and animal horn.

19 * SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Many of the current social problems in Côte d'Ivoire arise from difficult economic conditions. Those who live in poverty lack adequate housing and schools, as well as decent health care, clean water, and electricity. Poverty has also resulted in an increase in crime, including violent crime, which is found especially in cities such as Abidjan. Unemployment is severe in the cities.

Côte d'Ivoire also suffers from one of the highest rates of AIDS and HIV infection in Africa.

20 * BIBLIOGRAPHY

Daniels, Morna. Côte d'Ivoire. World Bibliographical Series, Vol. 131. Oxford: CLIO Press, 1996.

Perl, Lila. Ghana and Ivory Coast: Spotlight on West Africa. New York: Morrow, 1975.

Rossellini, Albert, ed. Côte d'Ivoire in Pictures. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1988.

U.S. Department of the Army. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. Côte d'Ivoire, A Country Study. 3d ed. Edited by Robert E. Handloff. Area Handbook Series. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991.

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PRONUNCIATION: ih-VWAHR-ee-uhns ALTERNATE NAMES: Ivorians LOCATION: West Africa (Côte d'Ivoire) POPULATION: 14.7 million LANGUAGE: Approximately 60 ethnic languages, including Akan; Mandé; Gur (Voltaic); Kru; Dioula (the most widely spoken); Baoulé (Akan); Sénoufo (Voltaic); Yacouba (south Mandé); French (official language) RELIGION: Islam; Christianity (both incorporate traditional indigenous beliefs) Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is a French-speaking country in West Africa.

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ABIDJAN, Côte d'Ivoire - On a recent, overcast afternoon in this West African city, Abdoul Karim Konaté sat at a table outside Chez Dede, a low-key maquis, or sidewalk bar, with plastic tables and chairs arranged along the pavement and a waitress who rested her head facedown on the bar. Konaté recently returned from a trip to the Cannes Film Festival, in France, where the movie "Run" - the first film from Côte d'Ivoire to be selected for the competition - had its world premiere. Konaté, who plays the lead role in the film, sipped from a bottle of soda, recalling the days of "la crise" - the postelection crisis of 2011, which pushed a country still reeling from the civil war of the early 2000s to the brink of another catastrophe.

"It was very difficult," said Konaté, a 34-year-old with leading-man looks, explaining that most of his friends and family had fled to neighboring countries. Work was hard to come by. In the working-class district of Yopougon, where Konaté now sat, he would sometimes see dead bodies lying on the street. "They were killing people outside my house," he said.

Memories of the crisis still weigh on Konaté; in order to play the part of the title character in "Run," he said he "remembered the things [he] saw" during the 2011 unrest and channeled them into his performance. Set in a fictionalized version of Côte d'Ivoire, the movie echoes the turbulence of that period, opening with a chaotic scene in which the prime minister is killed. But "Run" is more than just a political melodrama. Told through a series of flashbacks, it's a coming-of-age tale about a young man who, on his journey to adulthood, is constantly forced to flee the demons of his past. In a phone interview from Paris, the film's director, Philippe Lacôte, said of the character, "Each time he's running away from one life to another."

Three years after the end of the crisis, as fresh investment pours into the country, Côte d'Ivoire is experiencing a similar transformation. Nowhere is that revival more evident than in Abidjan, a freewheeling city of fast cars and fast fortunes whose elegant boutiques and restaurants offering French wine and haute cuisine long ago earned it a reputation as "the Paris of West Africa." As construction cranes swoop over the skyline and massive building projects give the city's infrastructure a much-needed reboot, there is a sense that the pro-business government of President Alassane Ouattara, a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) official, is trying quite literally to build over the rubble of the past. For the country's once-vibrant film industry, hopes are high that the current boom could also offer a fresh start as an emerging crop of filmmakers struggles to bring Ivorian stories to the big screen.

"Run" is the country's most ambitious movie to date. Produced on a budget of $2.1 million - the costliest Ivorian production ever - and told with a sweeping, decades-spanning narrative arc, it reflects the growing determination of local filmmakers to push Ivorian cinema back into the global spotlight it enjoyed decades ago. At the industry's peak, auteurs like Henri Duparc, a Guinea native who spent most of his adult life in Côte d'Ivoire, and Désiré Ecaré, whose 1985 classic, "Faces of Women," won a prestigious International Federation of Film Critics award, were at the forefront of African cinema. But an economic crisis in the 1980s, followed by the death of autocratic President Felix Houphouët-Boigny in 1993 and nearly two decades of political instability, pushed film to the margins of Ivorian life. The milestone selection of "Run" at Cannes, however, is a sign that a cinematic renaissance is underway.

But if the stakes are outsized, so are the challenges. Most of the country's movie theaters were shuttered in recent decades; many have turned into evangelical churches. Piracy has crippled local distribution. Despite an economic boom - the country's economy grew 9.8 percent last year, beating the IMF's forecast - funding for films is scant.

The government is trying to address the shortfall, according to Fadika Kramo-Lancine, director-general of the National Film Office of Côte d'Ivoire. An accomplished filmmaker whose first feature, "Djeli," won the coveted top prize in 1981 at FESPACO - Africa's biggest film festival, held every two years in neighboring Burkina Faso - Kramo-Lancine oversees a national film policy, introduced in 2008, that's meant to foster development in the local industry. Perhaps the biggest achievement so far has been the creation of a government-sponsored film fund, which began providing loans to filmmakers in 2011 (including roughly $150,000 toward "Run," the fund's largest disbursement to date).

But for Kramo-Lancine, the progress has been too slow. "The fund is poor," he said in halting English. "Our minister has a big ambition for this fund to develop quickly, but now the government has not put many money on this side."

For film directors, the lack of training is also a hurdle; Côte d'Ivoire has no formal film schools. Like Kramo-Lancine before him, Lacôte, who splits his time between Paris and Abidjan, was trained in France. With an eye toward cultivating the next generation of Ivoirian filmmakers, he and his partner, Ernest Kouamé Konan, established a workshop this year sponsored by their company, Wassakara Productions.

Each week the duo gathers 10 young filmmakers for an intensive course in scriptwriting and development in the sleepy, seaside town of Grand-Bassam. At the end of the workshop, the company will choose the best script and produce it for the big screen. "We want to help the young," said Konan, "and to help cinema have the importance it had before."

On a recent visit, many of the projects in discussion dealt with issues of violence and reconciliation - a reminder of the fragile process of making Côte d'Ivoire whole once again. While the legacy of the 2011 crisis runs deep, it has had the unintended consequence of providing fertile material for stories.

The biggest challenge may be selling those stories to local audiences raised on Western films. When Konaté and a small group of actors recently paid a visit to one of Abidjan's video clubs, or informal movie theaters, the owner showed only mild interest when he was told the visitors were among the cast of "Run." A corkboard marqee hanging on a wall outside the club, where a dozen wooden benches faced a dusty Samsung TV, advertised the day's screenings: the Jamie Foxx action movie "The Kingdom," the History Channel series "Vikings" and an erotic feature called "Les Femmes de Footballeurs XXX."

Along the busy commercial strip of Yopougon's Rue Princesse nearby, Konaté and the other actors paused in front of a nightclub called Planete des Stars. Facing the street were giant portraits of America hip-hop icons: P. Diddy, Rihanna, Usher, Li'l Wayne. Konaté rattled off the names, wondering why there were no Ivorian stars beside them. Someday, he said, his face would be up there too.

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ABIDJAN, Côte d'Ivoire - On a recent, overcast afternoon in this West African city, Abdoul Karim Konaté sat at a table outside Chez Dede, a low-key maquis, or sidewalk bar, with plastic tables and chairs arranged along the pavement and a waitress who rested her head facedown on the bar.

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Cote D'Ivoire is one of the most prominent countries within Francophone Africa, and has experienced high economic growth in the past years. The media in Cote D'Ivoire has played an important role in reporting on recent conflicts and opportunities, however, media is still largely controlled by government-owned media entities. The public Radiodiffusion-Television Ivoireienne (RTI) owns some of the top television and radio stations in the country, including TV stations RTI1 or La Première, a news station, and RTI2 or TV2, an entertainment station. French broadcasters Canal+ and France24 are also broadcast in the country through satellite connectivity and paid subscriptions.

The advertising landscape in Cote D'Ivoire is quite robust following the recent economic growth in the country and boosted by a young consumer base. In 2016 it was estimated that the total advertising spend was $110 million, and international retailers such as the French multinational Carrefour have increased their footprint in Cote D'Ivoire. While traditional media including radio, TV, print, and outdoor advertising remain strong, as higher percentages of the population come online, it is expected that digital modes will also increase in power.

A recent GeoPoll study in Cote D'Ivoire, run in conjunction with GeoPoll Audience Measurement's regular data collection in the country, examined the usage of traditional and new media, along with purchase habits for several fast-moving consumer goods.

Traditional Media in Cote D'Ivoire

GeoPoll's study of the media landscape in Cote D'Ivoire finds that Television is the most-consumed traditional media, with 48% watching TV for more than two hours a day, and an additional 43% watching at least some TV each day. The youngest age group (15-24) report slightly higher viewership than older age groups. Radio also performs well, with 32% listening for between more than two hours per day, and a total of 84% listening to radio each day.

Both radio and newspapers are more popular with the older age groups, who are more likely to read a daily newspaper and report listening to the radio for more than two hours. The older age group is also slightly more likely to read a magazine every day than younger populations.

Billboards are found to be a polarizing medium, with 38% saying they would not be likely to read or react to a billboard advertisement, and 21% saying they would be highly likely to read or react to an out-of-home ad.

TV Ratings in Cote D'Ivoire

Looking at the ratings of TV stations in Cote D'Ivoire for January to February 2020, we can see the dominance of RTI1 and RTI2. RT1 or La Première had a total share of 23% of the TV viewing audience in January 2020, and 16% in February 2020, while RTI2 had a share of 13% in January and 8% in February. Canal+ Sport was the next most popular station, with 8% of share in January and 11% of share in February. Demonstrating the diverse interests of the audience in Cote D'Ivoire, other top stations include Canal+, NovelasTV, NollywoodTV, France24, National Geographic, TraceTV, and SyFy. Stations that are more popular with female audiences include NollywoodTV and Novelas TV, which are both entertainment channels.

Internet and Social Media in Cote D'Ivoire

Internet usage in Ivory Coast is low compared to other West African countries such as Nigeria, and GeoPoll found that 41% of our SMS respondents access the Internet on most days, but for less than one hour a day, with only 13% accessing the internet for one to four hours per day. Despite this, several media outlets have started using social media and messaging applications to reach their audience, including La Monde, which has used WhatsApp to grow its audience in Francophone Africa. This study confirmed the dominance of Facebook and WhatsApp in Cote D'Ivoire, with Facebook having the highest levels of use: 39% state that they use Facebook for more than two hours a day, compared to 9% who say the same for Instagram, 20% for YouTube, and 34% for WhatsApp.

Get Data on Ivory Coast TV and Radio Ratings

GeoPoll collects regular audience measurement data through GeoPoll Audience Measurement, which displays daily TV and Radio ratings in Cote D'Ivoire through an interactive dashboard. To get access to GeoPoll Audience Measurement data in Cote D'Ivoire, which is run in conjunction with Harmonies Media and PHD, please contact us here.

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Official name : Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (formerly known as Ivory Coast)

Area: 322,460 square kilometers (124,502 square miles)

Highest point on mainland: Mount Nimba (1,752 meters/5,748 feet)

Lowest point on land: Sea level

Hemispheres: Southern and Eastern

Time zone: Noon = noon GMT

Longest distances: 808 kilometers (502 miles) from southeast to northwest, 780 kilometers (485 miles) from northeast to southwest

Land boundaries: 3,110 kilometers (1,932 miles) total boundary length; Burkina Faso 584 kilometers (363 miles); Ghana 668 kilometers (415 miles); Guinea 610 kilometers (379 miles); Liberia 716 kilometers (445 miles); and Mali 532 kilometers (330 miles)

Coastline: 515 kilometers (322 miles)

Territorial sea limits: 22 kilometers (12 nautical miles)

1 LOCATION AND SIZE

Côte d'Ivoire is located in West Africa between Ghana and Liberia, with a southern border on the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean. With a total area of about 322,460 square kilometers (124,502 square miles), it is slightly larger than the state of New Mexico. The country is divided into fifty departments.

2 TERRITORIES AND DEPENDENCIES

Côte d'Ivoire has no outside territories or dependencies.

3 CLIMATE

Côte d'Ivoire has a warm, humid climate that transitions from equatorial to tropical. Temperatures average between 25°C (75°F) and 32°C (90°F), with extremes of 10°C (50°F) to 40°C (104°F) depending on the time of year and the area of the country.

In the north, heavy rains occur between June and October, averaging 110 centimeters (43 inches) annually. Along the equatorial coast and the southwest, some rain falls in most months, but precipitation is heaviest between May and September, with average rainfall of 110 to 200 centimeters (43 to 87 inches) annually. The major dry season lasts from December to April.

4 TOPOGRAPHIC REGIONS

The Guinea Highlands, in the northern half of the country (from Man to Odienné), have peaks greater than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) high. The country's remaining terrain, however, is made up of a vast plateau that tilts gently toward the Atlantic Ocean. The land is generally divided into three main regions based on the difference in natural vegetation. The Lagoon Region runs parallel to the coastline, the Dense Forest Region crosses the middle of the country, and the Savannah Woodland Region lies to the north.

5 OCEANS AND SEAS

Seacoast and Undersea Features

Côte d'Ivoire borders the Gulf of Guinea (a part of the Atlantic Ocean) in the southern portion of the country.

Sea Inlets and Straits

A series of lagoons lie along the coastline, interspersed by sandbars, mudbanks, and small wooded islands. Most of these lagoons are narrow, salty, and shallow; they run parallel to the coastline, linked to one another by small watercourses or canals.

Coastal Features

The area along the coast, from the Ghana border to the mouth of the Sassandra River, is known as the Lagoon Region. Directly at the coast, smooth, steep beaches are pounded by heavy surf, particularly in July and November. Behind the beaches, the sandy soil supports a luxuriant growth of coconut palm and salt-resistant coastal shrubs.

6 INLAND LAKES

The four largest lakes are Kossou Lake in the central part of the nation, Taabo Lake to the south of Kossou Lake, Buyo Lake in the southwest, and Ayamé Lake in the southeast near the border with Ghana.

Lake Kossou is the largest of these, covering an area of about 1,600 square kilometers (618 square miles). All four of them are man-made lakes.

7 RIVERS AND WATERFALLS

Côte d'Ivoire has four main rivers that run roughly parallel from the north to the south. They are the Cavally (on the border with Liberia), Sassandra, Bandama, and Komoé; the longest of these is the Bandama, which runs about 800 kilometers (500 miles). The waterways are navigable for only short distances from the coast. Rocky ledges and numerous rapids prevent passage even of small canoes. Seasonal flooding has caused obstacles in east-to-west travel across the country; building and maintaining bridges and roads over the main rivers would be very expensive.

8 DESERTS

There are no desert regions in Côte d'Ivoire.

9 FLAT AND ROLLING TERRAIN

The Savannah Woodland Region in the north consists of open, grassy woodland scattered with a few trees and shrubs. Moving south, larger areas of trees are found, particularly along the rivers, as one enters the area known as the Dense Forest Region. This region stretches across the center of the country from Liberia to Ghana and, west of Fresco, continues south to the ocean.

10 MOUNTAINS AND VOLCANOES

The only mountain masses in the country are along the western border and in the northwest, where some of the higher peaks exceed 914 meters (3,000 feet) in elevation. Mount Nimba is the country's highest peak (1,752 meters/5,748 feet). It is located in the western corner, where the country borders both Liberia and Guinea.

11 CANYONS AND CAVES

There are no significant caves or canyons in Côte d'Ivoire.

12 PLATEAUS AND MONOLITHS

Viewed as a whole, almost all of the country is little more than a wide plateau, sloping gradually southward to the sea.

13 MAN-MADE FEATURES

Large dams were built in the 1960s and 1970s in an effort to control the flow of the major rivers and offer a better system of irrigation for the surrounding areas. The major dams are: Buyo Dam on the Sassandra River, Kossou and Taabo Dams on the Bandama, and Ayamé Dam on the small Bia River in the southeast corner of the country. All of these dams have created namesake reservoirs or lakes.

DID YOU KNOW?

Two parks in Côte d'Ivoire-Comoé National Park and Taï National Park-have been designated World Heritage Sites by the United Nations agency called UNESCO. Comoé (Komoé) is located in the far eastern part of the country surrounding the Komoé River. This parkland, covering one of the largest protected areas in West Africa, support a diverse population of plant life. Taï.

14 FURTHER READING

Books

Fuchs, Regina. Ivory Coast . Bradt, NJ: Hunter Publications, 1991.

Kummer, Patricia K. Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). New York: Children's Press, 1996.

Mundt, Robert J. Historical Dictionary of Côte d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast). Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Web Sites

Lonely Planet Destinations. Côte d'Ivoire, http://www.lonelyplanet.com (accessed March 19, 2003).

U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs. Background Notes, Côte d'Ivoire. http://www.state.gov (accessed March 19, 2003).

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"L'Abidjanaise" est le chanson nationale
National carnivals: Carnival in Bouaké
Pagne is the traditional clothing for women