The Ivorian Women Who Marched on a Prison

In December 1949, eight leaders of the PDCI had been held without trial for ten months in the Grand-Bassam prison and had stopped eating. Barred from taxis, hundreds of women walked the forty kilometres from Abidjan, and on a lagoon bridge they were met with fire hoses loaded with sand. The prison did not open, and that bridge is now called Victory Bridge.

Great figuresColonial historyAnticolonial resistancePioneering womenIvory CoastOCOuezzin CoulibalyMKMarie KoréAnne-Marie Raggi