Bédié founded his power on the country’s Catholics and his government on tribal membership. And he invented a legitimizing concept of Ivorian identity (Ivoirité), which was largely meant to disqualify northern Muslims as foreigners, because their tribes extended into Mali and Burkina Faso.
但乌弗埃-博瓦尼的继任者亨利·科南·贝迪埃（Henri Konan Bédié）既没有前任的才智，也缺乏足够的勇气。贝迪埃将自身的权力构建于天主教势力和部族成员制之上。还发明了一个关于科特迪瓦人身份（Ivoirité）的合法性概念，并以此将北部穆斯林视为外国人，因为他们的部族延伸到了马里和布基纳法索境内。