“In the course of an investigation over the past few months in French West Africa,” said La Graviére, “I have obtained proof that several hundred Negroes have been sent as slaves by African ...

S. His father, Sheik Mamadou. is the “ruling notable” of nearly 2,000,000 Senegalese of French West Africa, although the French Governor General’s word in that section of the world is ...

Yet the American public knows little factually either about Dakar itself or about French West Africa, the area of which it is the capital. French West Africa is a region of vast extent and magnificent ...

The African Development Bank and the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) concluded a workshop on Thursday aimed at enhancing the use of development finance data to support national ...

France has restructured its military presence in recent months, closing most of its historic bases in West Africa. However, ...

For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region. Leopold Sedar Senghor, the country’s first president and a poet ...

Outtara's announcement follows that of other leaders across West Africa, where France’s militaries are being asked to leave. Analysts have described the requests for French troops to leave ...

President Mbeki continued: “Part of what is happening in West Africa is a rebellion by young officers against French neo-colonialism. It’s not only military coups to remove some elected ...

Former French minister Élisabeth Moreno will launch on 5 and 6 June the African Descendant Women Impact Network, an ...

to lead the most important French neocolony in West Africa,” added Ekissi. Taking advantage of the discontent that had been ...