Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa

Introduction

1. Colonialism and Decolonisation in French sub-Saharan Africa

Alexander Keese

2. Françafrique

Tony Chafer

3. The Durability of the "Gendarme de l'Afrique": from Empire to Fighting Terrorism

Bruno Charbonneau

4. Francophonie and Africa: Past, Present and Future Perspectives

Margaret A. Majumdar

5. France and Francophone Africa: An Enduring Financial and Economic Relationship faced with Uncertainty

Francois Gaulme

6. Colonial Medicine in French West Africa: Scientists for Empire from the origins to independence 1960

Adama Aly Pam

7. French Schools in sub-Saharan Africa

Françoise Blum

8. Reconciling with the Past and Looking to the Future: The Place of the Tirailleurs Sénégalais in Post-Colonial Senegal

Ruth Ginio

Section 2. Belgium, Belgian colonialism and Africa

9. Belgian colonisation in Africa and decolonisation

Guy Vanthemsche

10. Facing ghosts: Lumumba Shadows

Fernanda Vilar

11. Guilty Imaginaries: rethinking language and ethnicity in post-colonial Rwanda and Burundi

Pierre Boizette

Section 3. The Maghreb

12. Language Policies in Algeria since 1962: Identity Renewal in the Light of Realpolitik Imperatives

Yassine Temlali

13. The Languages of Democracy in post 2011 Tunisia

Charis Boutieri

14. Maghrebi Francophonies: from the Colonial to the Postcolonial and Beyond

Zineb Ali Ben Ali

Section 4. Francophones in France

15. "A Great Gang of Black and Brown Humanity": The Lives and Politics of African Migrants in Twentieth Century France, from Vagabonds and Transients to Maritime Labourers and Intellectuals

Jennifer Boittin

16. Postcolonial Migration, Racism and Culture: France and North Africa

Jonathan Lewis

17. Cultural Pan-Africanism in Twentieth Century France

Rachel Gillett

18. "Our lives are political!" Afrofeminism in France or the fightback of the granddaughters of Empire

Silyane Larcher

19. The Road to 2005: How the Memory of Colonialism in France Became a Substitute for Race

Itay Lotem

Section 5. Francophone African Literature and Film

20. Colonial/ Postcolonial Francophonies in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Topicality to Universality

Saliou Dione

21. The problematic location of Reunionese literature within Francophone studies

Laetitia Saint-Loubert

22. How African languages free Francophone African cinema

Amadou Kone

Section 6. ‘Francophone’ and ‘Anglophone’ Africa

23. ‘Francophones’ and ‘Anglophones’ in Cameroon: Official bilingualism, language competition and everyday practice

Gratien G. Atindogbe & Koumassol Midinette Endurence Dissake

24. A Postcolonial appraisal of Francophone/ Anglophone relations in Cameroon

Nkwenti Fru

25. The Commonwealth of Nations and ‘francophone’ Africa: bridging the colonial divides?

Melanie Torrent

Section 7. Beyond national boundaries and 'colonial partners'

26. Pan-Africanism in francophone West Africa: continuity vs rupture

Kalilou Sidibé

27. Francophone Africa beyond 'colonial partners': French-speaking countries' economic cooperation with China

Claude Sumata

28. From Regional Organisations to Coalition Interventions: Francophone Africa and contemporary security challenges

          Malte Brosig & Bastien Nivet

Biography

Tony Chafer is Emeritus Professor of African and French Studies at the University of Portsmouth and a Fellow of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice, University of Ibadan. He is a historian specializing on Francophone Africa and French relations with Africa in the late colonial and post-colonial periods. His monograph La fin de l’empire colonial français en Afrique de l’Ouest: entre utopie et désillusion was published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes in 2019. He edited (with Alexander Keese) Francophone Africa at Fifty (2013). He recently published ‘Beyond Françafrique – the state of relations between France and Africa’, Europa World (Routledge, 2023). He has also published widely on French military and security policy in Africa.

Margaret A. Majumdar is Emeritus Professor of Francophone Studies at the University of Portsmouth. She has published extensively on French political philosophy and the Francophone dimension of postcoloniality. Her publications include Post-coloniality: The French Dimension (2007); Transition and Development in Algeria: Economic, Social and Cultural Challenges (with M. Saad, 2005); Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary (2002); and Althusser and the End of Leninism? (1995).