Louis-Gustave Binger
Louis-Gustave Binger (born the October 14th 1856 with Strasbourg, dead the November 10th 1936 with Isle-Adam) was a French officer and an explorer of the West Africa.
The explorer
During three stays which it accomplished with the Senegal and in the adjoining countries, Binger drew the attention of the French governor Faidherbe. This one supported it in its ambitious company to cross the West Africa since the higher course of the Niger until the coast of Guinea. Left in 1887 Bamako, Binger crossed Tenetou and Sikasso (current Mali), before moving to the south towards Kong, which it reached the February 20th 1888.
It noted there that the “mountains of Kong” which were reproduced until there on the charts did not have any real existence. On the other hand he dissociated the narrow boundary line of water between the affluents of Niger and the rivers which run in direction of the Golfe of Guinea, like the Comoé or the Bandama.
De Kong, Binger moved towards north, and by Boromo (on the black Volta) towards Ouagadougou, which is located more at the east. From there, forced to make a turning in the south by current the Ghana, it reached in October Salaga via Gurunsi, then Kintampo and Bondoukou. The January 5th 1889 it made its junction with Treich-Laplène which had been sent to its meeting, and it continued with him its forwarding until Large-Bassam (current Ivory Coast). By treaties with the local leaders with Tieba, Kong and Bondoukou, it placed the regions distant located between High-Niger and the Gulf from Guinea under French influence and opened new ways with the commercial traffic towards the colony French of Large-Bassam.
The administrator
Binger described its voyage in its work in two volumes Of Niger to the Gulf of Guinea (Paris, 1891). In 1892, it was placed at the head of a French mission, which was to delimit the border between the French territories and English in the country Ashanti. It was then, of 1893 with 1898, Gouverneur of the French Ivory Coast, then in 1898 it was named Directeur with the French Ministry of the Colonies.
Louis-Gustave Binger died the November 10th 1936 with Isle-Adam, at 80 years. He is buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse in Paris.
The town of Bingerville, which was the second capital of the Ivory Coast, after Large-Bassam and before Abidjan, still bears its name today.
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- Biography of Louis-Gustave Binger
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