Ivory Coast's colonial street names get rebrand

Street names in Ivory Coast's economic capital have taken on a decidedly more local flavour over the past few weeks, as African names have replaced French ones in France's former colony.

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The road linking the airport to Abidjan's city centre, for example, is no longer named after former French president Valerie Giscard d'Estaing, but for the man who led Ivory Coast following its independence from France in 1960, Felix Houphouet-Boigny.

The old names "weren't necessarily used by our people", said Alphonse N'Guessan, the urban planning official in charge of the project.