Université Catholique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (UCAO) or Catholic University of West Africa was founded in 1967 as the Higher Institute of Religious Culture; later it became a university. It is situated in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It has also campuses in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso), Cotonou (Benin), Dakar(Senegal) and Lomé (Togo).^[1]

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