The Historical, Economic, and Political Bases of France's African Policy

@article{Martin1985TheHE,  title={The Historical, Economic, and Political Bases of France's African Policy},  author={Guy Martin},  journal={The Journal of Modern African Studies},  year={1985},  volume={23},  pages={189 - 208},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154727976}}
A Quarter of a century has elapsed since France granted independence to her former colonies in West and Central Africa. Yet to this day, France continues to wield considerable power and influence in these countries politically, economically, socially, and culturally, thanks to a tightly-knit network of formal and informal relations. France's African policy has been remarkably constant and stable through the various successive governments of the Fifth Republic. How can this persistent situation… 

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