Youth of the African Democratic Rally of Ivory Coast

The Youth of the African Democratic Rally of Ivory Coast (French: Jeunesse du Rasseblement Démocratique Africain de Côte d'Ivoire, JRDACI) is a political youth movement in Ivory Coast. JRDACI was the youth wing of the African Democratic Rally (R.D.A.) in that country.

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JRDACI was founded in Treichville on March 14, 1959. It was fiercely anti-colonial. Félix Houphouët-Boigny rapidly saw JRDACI as a nest of opposition, and ordered it to dissolve.

The general secretary of JRDACI was Amadou Koné, later Minister of Health.

References
  • Gbagbo, Laurent: Côte d'Ivoire, Pour une alternative démocratique. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1983.


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