The history of Côte d'Ivoire is full of outstanding female political figures, and among them, Marie Sery Koré occupies a key place. A woman of character and a committed activist, she established herself as one of the great figures in the struggle for the country's independence. She is a “woman of admirable bravery and intelligence, lacking only education,” the historian Henriette Diabaté explains in her book, La Marche des femmes sur Grand-Bassam (The Women's March on Grand-Bassam – not yet translated in English), published by Nouvelles Éditions Africaines in 1975.