Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

Site Map; Connect with Us. Presented ... Sheik Mamadou. is the “ruling notable” of nearly 2,000,000 Senegalese of French West Africa, although the French Governor General’s word in that ...

For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region. Monika Pronczuk. Friday 04 October 2024 16:20 BST.

PARIS/LIBREVILLE, Feb 27 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that France's military bases in Africa will gradually be co-run with their host nations, after Paris suffered a series ...

It has taken 75 years, but finally the francophone countries of West Africa have broken free from one of the last vestiges of French colonialism - the CFA franc.

As the world marks the United Nations French language day on 20 March, The Conversation’s West Africa regional editor, Adejuwon Soyinka, asked academic and author Kathleen Stein-Smith about the ...