La Françafrique Pt.1: France’s Shadow Empire

Bonjour tout le monde! In this week’s Conflicted, Thomas and Aimen
are going continental as they continue their survey of Africa, with
the first of a two part series on French West Africa, aka La
Françafrique! France’s West African colonial possessions are
relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but from Chad to
Senegal, their histories are fascinating, and remind us of the
disturbing continued tentacles of colonialism on the continent… In
this first episode, Thomas and Aimen take us back to the precursors
to colonial West Africa, from the Ghana Empire of antiquity, to the
resplendent reign of Mansa Musa and his Malian empire renowned as
the richest in the world… They then look to the arrival of the
French and the ‘civilising mission’, before examining how France
have continued to subjugate and exploit many West African countries
through a neo-imperial control of their monetary policies. New
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