Author: Verschave François-Xavier
Book: From La Françafrique to La Mafiafrique
Year: 2004
Language: French
Brief: The Franco-African policy, otherwise called Françafrique, is extremely harmful. After the proclamation of the independence of the former French colonies in Africa, political networks ensured the continuity of the plundering of the black continent to the benefit of the men of power in France by placing corrupt dictators at the head of Newly independent states. This text, transcript of a lecture given at the end of 2003, proposes to us to fly over the workings of the Françafrique and its mafia drifts and offers us some avenues for new relations with the peoples of the third world by deepening democracy to The planetary scale. …
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