IThey are seen in the minds of Ivorians as a rebellious people who during the colonial period expressed a categorical refusal to allow white men to enter their lands.
The abbey people located in the south of Côte d'Ivoire, whose regional capital is Agboville, have a history that rhymes with that of a fierce opposition to submission and servile exploitation linked to colonization. Posterity will remember for a long time this funny story where in 1910, the abbey would have assassinated Rubino, a colonist who after being killed, was cut into pieces and was cooked then consumed to give a warning to the colonial administration. This is to mean to the whites that the abbey cannot sell off their integrity and their dignity in the name of any mission of civilization. History will also remember that it was this people who opposed the fiercest resistance to colonial penetration, which resistance lasted more than ten years (1906-1916). But in fact, who are these supposedly rebellious people who, they say, do not hesitate to express their disagreement, often in a cruel way? What is the reality on this case of cannibalism where a white man would have been eaten by the abbey in the wake of what history now calls the revolt of the abbey? Through a visit to this region, Expression went to draw on the source of information where our reporting team was able to meet notables who were able to restore the facts in all their historicity. These guardians of tradition have lifted a corner of the veil on the history of the Abbey-Krobou people and on the Rubino affair, which ended up giving its name to a locality in this region.
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