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Ivorian village remembers revolt that killed French colonial officer

Nanan Lambert Koffi Kokola, the chief of Rubino, shows the grave of the French colonial army officer killed by the Abbé people on 7 July, 1910. © Bineta Diagne / RFI

Residents of the village of Rubino, in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire, continue to commemorate an uprising against a French colonial army officer killed there on 7 July 1910.

The village is named after Rubino, the officer targeted in the revolt by the Abbé people. The uprising is remembered as an act of resistance against colonial rule, and the event is still commemorated more than a century later.

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