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Beschreibung

For decades, France has exerted a neocolonial grip on its former African empire, known as the Françafrique. Yet a series of electoral breakthroughs and military coups by opponents of this order have put its future into question.

Covering a broad sweep of history from the eighteenth century to the present day, two leading authorities on French neocolonialism, Ndongo Samba Sylla and Fanny Pigeaud, offer a series of sharp political reflections on the French effort to subdue and subvert democracy in its former colonies.

With incisive analysis of recent events in Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and Senegal, the book offers an eye-opening counter-history of democracy and elections, and how the vote was limited in the first French colonies; the organisation of unequal rights within the new colonies; the spread of one-party regimes; significant historical coups d'etat; and the role of contemporary electoral interference.

For decades, France has exerted a neocolonial grip on its former African empire, known as the Françafrique. Yet a series of electoral breakthroughs and military coups by opponents of this order have put its future into question.

Covering a broad sweep of history from the eighteenth century to the present day, two leading authorities on French neocolonialism, Ndongo Samba Sylla and Fanny Pigeaud, offer a series of sharp political reflections on the French effort to subdue and subvert democracy in its former colonies.

With incisive analysis of recent events in Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and Senegal, the book offers an eye-opening counter-history of democracy and elections, and how the vote was limited in the first French colonies; the organisation of unequal rights within the new colonies; the spread of one-party regimes; significant historical coups d'etat; and the role of contemporary electoral interference.

Über den Autor

Fanny Pigeaud is a French journalist who works with Mediapart and Le Monde diplomatique, amongst other outlets. She is co-author of Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story and author of A Decade of Cameroon.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. A Brief Counter-History of Democracy and Elections

2. Limiting the Vote in the First French Colonies (1789-1920)

3. Defeating 'Subversion' and 'Submersion' in the New Colonies (1870-1960)

4. Single-Party Rule, Against the Popular Vote

5. Single-Party Rule, Coups d'état and French 'Imperial Suffrage' (1960-1989)

6. Multipartyism, the Highest Stage of Single-Party Rule (from 1990 onwards)

7. Contemporary Electoral Interference

8. In Côte d'Ivoire, France Imposes its Candidate by Force (2011)

8. Behind the 'Showcase of Democracy' in Senegal: Electoral Eugenics (2019-23)

9. Françafrique in Crisis (2020-Present)

Epilogue

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780745351711
ISBN-10: 0745351719
Sprache: Englisch
Originalsprache: Französisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pigeaud, Fanny
Sylla, Ndongo Samba
Übersetzung: Broder, David
Hersteller: Pluto Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 212 x 137 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Fanny Pigeaud (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2026
Gewicht: 0,322 kg
Artikel-ID: 136056297

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