Generational Tensions in the Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire Author(s): Jeanne Maddox Toungara Source: African Studies Review, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Sep., 1995), pp. 11-38 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/525316 Accessed: 07-02-2017 12:04 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Cambridge University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to African Studies Review This content downloaded from 140.105.48.10 on Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:04:10 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Generational Tensions in the Parti Dimocratique de C6te d'Ivoire Jeanne Maddox Toungara I am man of the transition [because] of my age and my ideas.... I have one foot in with the elders because I have learned from them, and the other with the young....The massive entry of young people [into the party] symbolizes the success of continuity. Laurent Dona Fologo, Fraternit, Matin, 19 April 1991 The theme of the Ninth Congress of the PDCI, which opened 1 October 1990 in the president's village of Yamoussoukro, was "renovation and continuity" (Fraternite Hebdo, 4 October 1990).