A photo taken on February 6, 1994 shows activists of the Democratic Party of the Ivory Coast (PDCI) carrying portraits of Felix Houphouet-Boigny, the first president of the Ivory Coast, during his funeral in Yamoussoukro. - Still idealised by many twenty five years after his death, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who was born on October 18, 1905, led his country, a former French colony, to independence in 1960, created the Democratic Party of the Ivory Coast (PDCI, the former single party) in 1946, and led the country as president for the next 33 years. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP)