Minignan is the chief town and commune of the greater Minignan Department, north-west Côte d'Ivoire.The French explorer René Caillié stopped at Minignan in 1827 on his journey from Boké, in present day Guinea, to Timbuktu in Mali. He was travelling with a caravan transporting kola nuts to Djenné. He described the village in his book Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo.