Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Former President of the Ivory CoastWikipedia
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Search complete. 24 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Félix Houphouët-Boigny".
Oct 10, 2026
Elisa ProsperettiGUEST
I'm afraid of-
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
Everybody knows Houphouët-Boigny [laughs]
Elisa ProsperettiGUEST
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Elisa ProsperettiGUEST
Houphouët-Boigny is rashing in his grave when you're telling, you're saying that.
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
I know.
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
I know.
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
Um, but yes, so these two, we'll say giants of, of, of African, um, nationalism here, Houphouët-Boigny and Nkrumah.
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
Can you talk about these two countries, these two leaders, um, really in sort of that colonial moment and how they popularize education, Europhone education, right? How they sort of push this idea, um, in the colonial moment and what they're up against, um, at the time.
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
Um, so can you talk about these two countries, the leaders, the more familiar Nkrumah of Ghana, and, um, well, here's my sort of Anglophone bias showing to say the more familiar.
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
Everybody knows Houphouët-Boigny.
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
[laughs]
Elisa ProsperettiGUEST
Rashing in his grave when you're telling, you're saying that.
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
I know.
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
I know.
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
Um, but yes, so these two, we'll say giants of, of, of African, um, nationalism here, Houphouët-Boigny and Nkrumah.
Afua Baafi QuarshieHOST
Can you talk about these two countries, these two leaders, um, really in sort of that colonial moment and how they popularize education, Europhone education, right? How they sort of push this idea, um, in the colonial moment and what they're up against, um, at the time.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
He's the only one who bothered to compose for the possibility.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Ivory Coast's President Houphouët-Boigny wrote an instruction to the astronauts themselves.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
He asked them to turn towards our planet Earth and cry out how insignificant the problems which torture men are when viewed from up there.
CornHOST
That's not a goodwill message.