The Princess Who Welcomed, the Chief Who Refused

In 1888, in Bobo-Dioulasso, a widow of high rank introduced the first Frenchman to reach the region, while sixteen miles away a Tiefo war chief refused to see him. Nine years later Samory Toure arrived: the town of the woman who welcomed was not razed, the town of the man who refused fell after an eight-day siege. Each kept its own version, and a hundred and thirty years later a stadium was still waiting for its name.

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