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African roots: The story of Queen Abla Pokou

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Gwendolin Hilse
April 30, 2021

Abla Pokou is an Akan queen who led her people from modern-day Ghana to Ivory Coast around 1770, where she founded the Baoule nation. Legend says she sacrificed her son to the river so that her people could cross over.

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