To browse Academia. Its author analyzes in a synthetic manner five centuries of Franco-African relations. This publication covers only the Sub-Saharan Africa. The first chapter presents the earlier contacts between Africa and Europe and the brake they have made to the natural development of the civilizations of Medieval Africa. The colony of Senegal, the starting point of French colonialism in West Africa, resistance movements to colonial penetration, the edification of French West Africa AOF were also discussed.
The author has also shown the role played by Blaise Diagne, the first black deputy to French parliament and that of his successors. The birth of the Negritude movement is the ending point of this first chapter. The chapter ends with the analyze of the phenomenon called Francafrique or the African-French State.
The history and the evolution of the French Minister of Cooperation are presented and the CFA Franc zone; the International organization of Francophonie and certain other organizations and financial institutions. This publication is the result of a few years of scientific investigations conducted by the author at the Institute of History and International Relations of the University Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, in the framework of the specialization on the issues of contemporary Africa.
Nevertheless, the passing from the «Françafrique» to the normalization of the relations between France and its former colonies in Black Africa remains actual. The president Sarkozy had promised the brake with the networks of the «Françafrique», but apparently it is not simple to brake with old established practices.
The Representatives of the Club Novation Franco-African claimed in that the history Franco-African was read during these past fifty years through a distorting prism. The official history of the Fifth Republic stresses that France was forced against her will, under the pressure of African leaders and people to concede independence. This official version is today contested by the club members mentioned above, they believe that after the second World War, the majority Sub-Saharan Africa leaders did not claim independence but only political equality.
