Affairs
Africa/Middle East Briefing

Don't bank on it - West Africa

Preface

When the "winds of change" swept through Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s, France was less willing than other European colonisers to relinquish its grip.

issue 11 . volume 02 . March 2008


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