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The regions of Africa once labelled by colonizers as the Pepper/Grain Coast, Gold Coast and Slave Coast were all renamed as they became independent and are now the countries Ghana, Liberia, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. Why did the Ivory Coast never change its name?

by /u/LorenzoApophis in /r/AskHistorians

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