This is the second on a series I have found from 1971-72 trips of French President Pompidou to nine African states in February and March 1971 and then Upper Volta and Togo in December 1972.
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Eyadéma & Pompidou, 1972
Category: France
President Houphouët-Boigny, from beginning as a powerful anti-colonial leader from a chiefly family quickly became a figure of stability and conservatism. This print from the mid-60s exemplified independence, freedom, but also paradoxically, Frenchness and continuity.