Search Results for: Contesting French West Africa

Harry Gamble examines the controversies of political and educational reform in French West Africa from the early to mid-twentieth century.

From Senegal in the west to the Comoros islands in the east, this collection of essays casts a critical eye over fifty years of 'independence' in former French

Living Beyond Boundaries: West African Servicemen in French Colonial Conflicts, 1908-1962, is a history of French West African colonial soldiers who served in F

As part of France's opposition to the independence of its former colonies in the years following World War II, its army remained deeply invested in preventing t

This collection of essays casts a critical eye over fifty years of independence in former French colonial possessions of Africa and the Indian Ocean.