Bamboula's Village

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Bamboula's Village (French: Village de Bamboula) was an attempt to recreate an Ivory Coast village within the Planète Sauvage zoo (then known as Safari Africain) in Port-Saint-Père, near Nantes, in France. It is considered the last human zoo in France. Opened in 1994, the village was created with the aim of promoting tourism in Ivory Coast, in partnership with the biscuit brand Biscuiterie Saint-Michel. It was named "Bamboula's Village" after the company's "Bamboula" chocolate biscuits, which had a black person with the same name as their mascot. The name of the biscuits was a racial slur, dating from colonial times. The village was constructed in the winter of 1993.

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