Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905-1993), affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux ("The Old One"), was political leaders and the first president of Ivory Coast, serving from 1960 until his death in 1993. He was a wealthy planter and physician who sought and won independence from the French.

Wisdom & Quotes

• On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was probably more in force in America - that holy of holies of capitalism - than in any other country in the world.

Greta Garbo