Brief History of the Baule Tribe of Cote d’Ivoire
The Baule tribe, according to history are a group of Akan people that forcefully emigrated from the Ashanti people of the Gold Coast which is present-day Ghana to Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in the 17th century. The Baule who are mainly farmers under the leadership of Queen Poku were at war with the Ashanti Kingdom…