Gokro is not the name of the village which preceded the town of Yamoussoukro.

Colonial history

In 1901, the queen Yamousso, niece of Kouassi Go, directed the village of Gokro at the time of the French Colonisation. The village counted 475 inhabitants then, and one counted in his neighborhoods 129 villages Akouè.

Diplomatic relations and commercial are thus established but, in 1909, with the call of the chief of Djamlabo, Akoué revolt against the administration Coloniale. The station of Bonzi, with seven kilometers of Yamoussoukro on the road of Bouaflé, is set fire to and the administrator Simon Maurice does not owe the life with the intervention of Kouassi Go.

This one receives the administrator in his aunt Yamoussou, great-aunt of Felix Houphouët-Boigny, thereafter founder of the Republic of Ivory Coast, and persuades then the Akouè not to make a war which could have turned only to one disaster.

The normal become again situation, the administrator Simon Maurice, judging that Bonzi had become not very sure, decides to transfer the French military station to Gokro, renamed Yamoussoukro in homage to Yamousso, where the French administration built thereafter a pyramid with the memory of Kouassi Go, chief of Akoué.

In 1919, the civil station of Yamoussoukro was removed, then Felix Houphouët-Boigny became chief of village in 1939. One long period was passed where Yamoussoukro, small town turned towards agriculture, remained in the shade, until after war where she saw the creation of the African Agricultural trade union, and first conferences of its chief. But it is only starting from the Indépendance that Yamoussoukro took its true rise until becoming the capital of the country in 1984.