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France’s african policy in transition : disengagement and redeployment
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Autor
Martin, Guy
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Resumen
Resumen: This essay is an inquiry into the nature and substance
of current French policy towards Africa. More specifically,
it is an attempt to answer the following question:
is France’s African policy truly in transition between oldstyle
neo-colonial and patrimonial type of policies characterized
by intimate and quasi-familial relations between the French and
francophone African elites –variously referred to as le village
franco-africain,1 or la Françafrique2 – and a new policy in which francophone Africa is subsumed within a broader Third World
policy, thus becoming normalized (normalisée and banalisée)?
In other words, is France resolutely moving away from its traditional
policy of domaine réservé and chasse gardée toward a
politico-diplomatic, military and economic and financial disengagement
from, and redeployment in Africa? In brief, are we
truly witnessing a decolonization of Franco-African relations?