Eugène Dié Kacou/CPJ Guest Blogger
![The author, far left, interviewing Brazilian soccer players in 1975. (Courtesy Eugène Dié Kacou)](https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/EugC3A8ne20DK.jpg?w=400&h=239&crop=1)
In Ivory Coast, old struggles give way to new challenges
Independence came when I was attending school at the orientation college in Abidjan-Plateau, and when I was still sneaking to listen to the news on my father’s Grundig radio set. Today, I believe that genuine freedom of the press exists in our African countries. In Ivory Coast, for example, the new press law abolished prison…