Cรดte d’Ivoire’s Yoruba

My grandfather was one of the early migrants,โ
Located on a hilly wooded savannah on the eastern end of the Atakora Mountain range, Atakpamรฉ and Kpalimรฉ were said to have represented the last major settlements of the Yoruba migrants whose presence could be found between the Niger and the Volta rivers.
As Togo was getting saturated, the Ejigbo migrants in the country got wind of the financial successes those in Cรดte dโIvoire were recording, hence they journeyed to Abidjan, a trade centre in the country.
โMy father was among those who arrived in Abidjan in the 1930s,โ Bashiru told our correspondent. โSince there was no development in Ejigbo, going back was difficult for them. They traded here and sent money to their families in Nigeria.โ
By 1960, when Cรดte dโIvoire got independence from its French colonial masters, the country was described as one of the most prosperous in West Africa, contributing over 40 per cent of the regionโs total exports.

