Francophone Africa at fifty (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Chafer, Tony; Keese, Alexander

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

France's presence on the African continent has often been presented as 'cooperation' and part of French cultural policy by policy-makers in Paris - and quite as often been denounced as 'the longest scandal of the republic' by French academics and African intellectuals. Between the last years of French colonialism and France's sustained interventions in former African colonies such as Chad or Côte d'Ivoire during the 2000s, the legacy of French colonialism has shaped the historical trajectory of more than a dozen countries and societies in Africa. The complexities of this story are now, for the first time, addressed in a comprehensive series of essays, based on new research by a group of specialists in French colonial history. The book addresses the needs of both academic specialists and those of students of history and neighbouring disciplines looking for structural analysis of key themes in France's and Africa's shared history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526102942
• Artikelnr.: 48795005

Autorenporträt

Tony Chafer is Professor of Contemporary French Studies at the University of Portsmouth; Alexander Keese is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Portsmouth

Inhaltsangabe

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 re
visited
Alexander Keese Part II: Military transitions 4. 'Saving French West Africa': The French army, African soldiers and military propaganda during the 1950s
Ruth Ginio 5. The French Army and Malian Independence (1956
1961)
Vincent Joly 6. Transfer of Military Power in Mauritania: From Ecouvillon to Lamentin (1956
1978)
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: Éminence 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 Index