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portada Colonialism Devours Itself: The Waning of Françafrique
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
365
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781911723653

Colonialism Devours Itself: The Waning of Françafrique

Gérard Prunier (Author) · Hurst · Hardcover

Colonialism Devours Itself: The Waning of Françafrique - Gérard Prunier

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Synopsis "Colonialism Devours Itself: The Waning of Françafrique"

France is the only country that never decolonised its colonies, emotionally, financially or strategically. In the aftermath of losing the Second World War, notwithstanding de Gaulle's attempts to convince his people otherwise, the French knew the game was up. (The Resistance fighters were heroes; but heroes are lonely.) For France, after 1945, the Second World War blended into the early Cold War, which Paris jumped into the day before it began. It fought in Indochina, and lost again. The independence war dragged on in Algeria. Then France lost there, too--painfully, with millions of its ordinary citizens expelled to a homeland that many of them hardly knew. But Sub-Saharan Africa was still there. France produced a postcolonial antidote: Françafrique, France's sphere of influence (or 'backyard') over its former West and Central African colonies. France loved Africa. Some Frenchmen died for Françafrique; others made millions from it. The entire toxic edifice is now crumbling away. Young Africans are happy about this--but not so many of their parents, who often live in France. In his inimitable style, Gérard Prunier recounts a tragic transcultural saga, with one leg in the past and one in the future: the end of Françafrique.

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