The Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium was named after the founding president of Ivory Coast.

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Others such as Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast believed that the newly independent countries must first build strong nation states.

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Sunday's match, won 5-0 by Ivory Coast, had not kicked off when a wall collapsed at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny stadium in Abidjan.

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The current best selling book in Ivory Coast is a political critique of the founding President, Felix Houphouet Boigny, who ruled from independence until his death in 1993.

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The book, "Houphouet Boigny's Imaginary Plots" is an expose of the late President who, according to author Samba Diarra invented various political plots in order to deal with his opponents.

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But it's a measure of the dominance of oral culture over the printed word both here and in the rest of Africa that Ivory Coast's leading book shop chain says it's only sold four thousand copies of Houphouet Boigny's Imaginary Plots.

BBC: Political thriller wows African readers