Ivory coast

Larry EverlyPer. 2

Geography

Fast Facts

• Official name: Republic of the Côte d'Ivoire• Population: 17,654,843• Currency: CFA franc• Capital City: Yamoussoukro (pop:120,000)• Language: French (official) • National Day: August 7 (Independence Day)

Foods• Yams, plantains, rice, millet, corn, and peanuts are

staple foods in Côte d'Ivoire• Kenke: Cornmeal cooked in leaf eaten with dried

fish and chile paste and you can eat it on the go • Red Red: Boiled bananas sweet red palm oil

usually breakfast meal • Foo Foo (national dish) boil cassava green

planties • Treeless plain: rice with peppery peanut sauce • They are really big on coca bean

Sports

• Soccer• Polo• Rugby• Track

Places To Visit

• Paris of West Africa: Beautiful parks, broad boulevards heart of this town St. Pauls Cathedral.

• Hotel Ivory: Skating rink ,casino ,bowling movie theater, tennis courts and supermarket

• Banco National Park: Outskirts of Abidjan 7,500acre tropical rain forest

• Korhogo has an airport, pools, movie theaters, large markets

• Man: Lush green hills is the main thing to visit here is it colorful market , then a water fall in a bamboo forest.

Music

• Traditional music style series of melody and rhythm• They don’t do anything without music Rice, Death,

Marriage, Birth, Weather are all celebrated with music.

• Can make local instruments out of anything gourds, animal skins and horns.Instruments used Talking drum, djembe, Kpalogo, Shekere (Youroo), Akombe, Cleavers

• King Sunny Ade

Religion

• 12% Christianity • 25% Muslim • 63% Traditional beliefs• The majority practice traditions ancestral

worship. They believe dead transformed into sprits reminded in contact with living

• then juju priest give them advice of how to avoid danger and bless necklace to scare bad sprits

Life Style

• Poor people live in overcrowded slums without water electricity and have cone thatched house.

• Rich people live in city with 2, 3 story house• Parents, children, grandparents, uncle, and

aunts all live in the same house• Western and traditional clothes• Western people clothes blue jeans shirt girls

traditional clothing wear pangnes

Bibliography

• http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/country/africa/ci.htm

• http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/290536• http://www.placesonline.com/africa/ivory_coast/abi

djan/travel_guide.asp• http://www.africaguide.com/country/ivoryc/culture.

htm#religion• http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Costa-Rica-to-Geor

gia/Ivoirians.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korhogo http://www.world66.com/africa/ivorycoast/man • http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/co/?id=100032 • http://www.africaguide.com/country/ivoryc/culture.

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