Côte d’Ivoire’s first PM Félix Houphouët-Boigny, known as Papa Houphouët, was born October 18, 1905.
Houphouët guided the country through the turbulent years leading up to and post independence.

President Felix Houphouet-Boigny
Issued 1959 by Côte d’Ivoire’s post office
Designer & engraver: Pierre Munier

“Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. 
Let us keep our dear countries free from irreversible mistakes which would lead us in the future to long for those same birds and trees.”