ivory coast
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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.
htm#music
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