For French President, Emmanuel Macron, recruiting various African intellectuals turned out to be a key asset in trying to shift the Françafrique narrative, while simultaneously protecting French interests on the continent.
What foot does Italy’s neo-Fascist prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, stand on to lecture France on its monetary colonialism in Africa?
It will have to be the Algerian diaspora inside France who will eventually have to mainstream the truth of France's colonial legacy.
The CFA franc, pegged to a strong Euro, penalizes African economies as well as regional trade and facilitates the development of Western multinationals.
The French Ethio-groove group Akalé Wubé has dissolved. For over a decade they have shown how cultural outsiders can considerately engage in music that is not theirs.
French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. It hasn't changed much.
The historically fraught relationship of metropole and colony persists between France and Algeria, as a recent “symbolic” gesture reveals.
Francophonie has served to obscure the harms caused by neocolonial projects in Africa, projects that are themselves a reflection of the racism within France’s borders.
What explains this reluctance to discuss the permanence of symbols honoring slave traders and colonialists in the public spaces in both France and its former colonies?
France’s history of violence policing left a legacy of law and disorder, targeting dissidents, in its former colonies.
What roles have francophone African women played in movements for pan-African liberation, historically and now?
Imagining a utopian, unified African federation not divided by colonial era borders or neocolonial interventions.
Are plans for ‘reform’ of West African currency, fueled by anticolonial sentiment, merely ‘rebranding’ the status quo?
The French philosopher and TV personality favors spectacle over analysis. The result: we don't make sense of political violence in Nigeria.
It is no longer shocking to witness the prejudice among French institutions and intelligentsia against Africa and Africans.
A visit to a museum in a French port city, brings up questions about how slavery is remembered.
The story of Surya Bonaly, and her unwillingness to yield to racist demands and expectations in the sport of figure skating.
What does Emmanuel Macron's visit to Fela Kuti's New Afrika Shrine say about what happened to Fela Kuti's legacy in Nigeria.
There is a long history of white artists representing black people in France, reproducing stereotypes and failing to capture the people they claim to represent.
Is France's World Cup championship team a bellwether for France's political future?