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African Think Tank

Françafrique Is A Blunt Tool For Explaining Foreign Policy

Africa needs more robust political analysis of countries’ internal dynamics and their relations with world powers. This approach is more empirically sound than resorting to ‘Françafrique’ which adopts a moralising and infantilising approach to African actors. And the notion is misleading for four reasons.

By Paul-Simon Handy, Felicite Djilo

14 October, 2021

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