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The vast forest refuge Krou before colonization

History of Wei

The oral tradition and the testimony of the first European explorers who approached the coast of Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire show Krou populations, which include the Wé people, have been established for at least the fifteenth century in the territories where they are still today. They once occupied an area which extended both to the north and east, beyond the Bandama. Invasions Mandingo (= Jula) north and east Akan have, in fact, forced the people to abandon the savanna zone and limit their habitat in the great primeval forest of Liberia and the Ivory Coast ( see map "The establishment of populations Krou sixteenth to the nineteenth century" , according to A. Schwartz 1993).


(Dance Gueré mask Viard, 1934 the Guéré forest people)

The country Wé thus remained relatively free from external influences to the threshold of the twentieth century th because, first, great natural barriers that were the rainforest and mountains of the country Dan (Yacouba =).

But the causes of this isolation were also economic because ormi cola nut, which fed an active trade between the north and the region of Wé Séguela the great forest had precious little to offer goods cosmopolitan markets Sahel or European traffickers Coast. Gold Ity had not yet been discovered and the region did not participate in traffic in slaves.

Adding that forest populations Wé like their neighbors Dan and Krou Bete were known for their fierce spirit of independence as well as for their ferocity in battle, which probably deterred many traders and invaders to venture into these areas. The name "Coast Malegents" (= Coast bad people) was even given to the western half of the maritime facade Cote d'Ivoire while the eastern part, more welcoming to traffickers and missionaries was termed " Coast Bonnegens ".

The conquest of the country by the French Wé

Exploring the country by the French Wé was very late compared to other regions of Côte d'Ivoire, in particular because of the indeterminacy of frontiers with neighboring Liberia, which has long claimed the regions west of the river Sassandra . From the Franco-Liberian Convention 1892, France obtained sovereignty over the lands east of the Cavally river, but in reality only the mouth of the river was known at that time and the border was supposed to run due north from Cape Palmas to a river north of Man that negotiators from both parties mistakenly identified as a tributary of the Cavally.


Hostains amid Wes
(The Hostains-d'Ollone Mission, Around the World, 1901)

In 1899, the Hostain-d'Ollonne Mission follows the course of the river from the sea to the Guinea with twenty riflemen djiminis and discovers that the river makes a bend to the west, at the town of Tai before resuming the direction of North, 100 kilometers further west, near Toulepleu. The results of this expedition will define the frontiers in a clearly unfavorable to Liberia since the entire region between the Cavally and Sassandra is finally assigned to the colony of Côte d'Ivoire.



The story of Hostain-d'Ollonne task by the captain Ollonne text is quite remarkable as well as exploration story than first historical source on the people through which the mission and soon conquered.With the book of R. Viard, director circle Guiglo in the 30s, this text is somewhat equivalent to Wes that can be "The War Gaulle" Julius Caesar overlooked in the history of Gaul.


Gueré women playing soldiers during a ceremony
(Viard, 1934 Guéré the forest people)


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