Ivory Coast: the historic 1949 women's march for PDCI leaders' release

In December 1949, hundreds of women marched from Abidjan to Grand-Bassam.

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They demanded the release of PDCI leaders imprisoned by the colonial administration.

This brutally suppressed mobilization marked Ivory Coast's anticolonial history.

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