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Return to Ivory Coast: the awakening of Abidjan

2022-04-19T20:19:46.744Z


REPORT - Bubbling and creative, the country's economic capital is establishing itself as a flagship destination in West Africa.


Special envoy to Abidjan

The dilapidated red taxi weaves its way through a hustle and bustle of deafening horns amid the wôrô-wôrô, the yellow communal cars, rickshaws and gbakas, minibuses of urban transport, in the popular district of Abobo.

It is there, at the town hall roundabout, that the Adama Toungara Museum of Contemporary Cultures (MuCAT) in Abidjan opened in March 2020.

A unique cultural space that was missing in the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire where contemporary art only had galleries, often private.

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Source: lefigaro

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