If you are familiar with Côte d’Ivoire, this West African country, sweet land of cocoa, home to elephants, and bordered to the south by the Atlantic Ocean, you should have probably heard of the famous Baoulé people. Located in the centre of the Ivorian territory and belonging to the large Akan ethnic group, the Baoulé people, originally from Ghana, are distinguished by their rich culture, exemplary organisation, and an atypical history whose fabulous episodes never cease to enchant the nightly talks organised in every moonlight’s evening.
Fleeing a fratricidal war of succession, the people that will later be known as Baoulé were led up to Côte d’Ivoire from the Ghanaian Empire by their Queen, the famous Abla Pokou. Pursued by their enemies and on the verge of being overtaken by the men of the bellicose Itsa – who assassinated Dakon, the brother of the young leader Abla Pokou – these people who sought a safe exile unfortunately, found themselves before the deadly and agitated waters of the Comoé River.