The Aboure people live primarily in the departments of Gran Bassam, Bonoua, and Aboisso in extreme southeastern Ivory Coast.
They live in a tropical rainforest fringed by a coastal lagoon. The nearby city of Abidjan, the country's economic capital, is also home to many of them.
The Abure of Cote d’Ivoire are numbering 110,000 (Peoplegroups.org, 2025)
Abure (Aboulé), also known as Abonwa or Akaplass, is a Tano language (Kwa, Niger–Congo) spoken near Abidjan in Ivory Coast.
Their language is classified as part of the Lagoon cluster of Niger-Congo languages.
Most of the Abures mare commercial farmers living from agriculture. Some are subsistence farmers, living off what they raise in their own fields. Others work in agricultural cooperatives that grow palm oil, coconut, cassava or bananas. Still others work for large producers of rubber and palm oil.
The Abure revolved againstFrech incursion into their homeland in the 1890s, but they could not hold out military.
Today a large percentage profess Christianity but also follow the rules of animistic traditions deeply ingrained in their cultures, using fetishes — objects believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a man-made object that has power over others — to ward off evil spirits.
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