Francophone Africa today
In: The Journal of social, political and economic studies, Band 12, Heft Spring 87
ISSN: 0278-839X, 0193-5941
Despite granting independence to her former colonies in West and Central Africa in the early 1960s, France continues to wield considerable power and influence politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Through successive governments the African policy of France has been exceptionally constant and stable. Analyses how this persistent situation of dominance /dependency and continuity in foreign policy can be accounted for. (GAW)