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Francophone Africa at fifty

Tony Chafer and Alexander Keese

Abstract

2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the ‘Year of Africa’. All France’s colonies in sub-Saharan Africa gained their independence in that year. This book brings together leading scholars from across the globe to review ‘Francophone Africa at Fifty’. It examines continuities from the colonial to the post-colonial period and analyses the diverse and multi-faceted legacy of French colonial rule in sub-Saharan Africa. It also reviews the decolonization of French West Africa in comparative perspective and observes how independence is remembered and commemorated fifty years on.

Keywords: France, Africa, Colonialism, Decolonization, Independence

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780719089305
Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: May 2019 DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719089305.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Tony Chafer, editor
Professor of Contemporary French Studies at the University of Portsmouth

Alexander Keese, editor
Visiting Scholar at the University of Portsmouth

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Tony Chafer and Alexander Keese

Part I Zero hour approaches

1 Gaston Defferre’s Loi-Cadre and its application, 1956/57: last chance for a French African ‘empire-state’ or blueprint for decolonisation?

Martin Shipway

2 A vocation for independence: Guinean nationalism in the 1950s

Mairi MacDonald

3 French officials and the insecurities of change in sub-Saharan Africa: Dakar, 19 August 1960 revisited

Alexander Keese,*

Part II Military transitions

4 ‘Saving French West Africa’: the French army, African soldiers and military propaganda during the 1950s1

Ruth Ginio

5 The French Army and Malian independence (1956–1961)

Vincent Joly

6 Transfer of military power in Mauritania: from Ecouvillon to Lamantin (1958–1978)1

Camille Evrard

Part III Continuities and connections

7 Franco-African security relations at fifty: writing violence, security and the geopolitical imaginary

Bruno Charbonneau

8 French coopération in the field of education (1960–1980): a story of disillusionment

Samy Mesli

9 Jacques Foccart, Eminence grise for African affairs

Jean-Pierre Bat

Part IV Anglo-French relations

10 Whitehall, the French Community and the Year of Africa: negotiating post-independence diplomacy in West Africa

Mélanie Torrent

11 A transnational decolonisation: Britain, France and the Rhodesian problem, 1965–1969

Joanna Warson

Part V Nationalist trajectories, border issues and conflicted memories

12 The changing boundaries of resistance: the UPC and France in Cameroonian history and memory

Thomas Sharp

13 A fragmented and forgotten decolonisation: the end of European empires in the Sahara and their legacy

Berny Sèbe*

14 Through the prism of the cinquantenaire: Côte d’Ivoire between refondation and Houphouët’s legacy

Kathrin Heitz*

15 Chad’s political violence at 50: bullets, ballots and bases

David Styan

End Matter

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Index