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CHALLENGES OF COLONIAL RULE IN WEST AFRICAN SAHEL – THE CASE OF FRENCH WEST AFRICA 1900 – 1930

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Trnovec S.

Asian and African Studies

2020

vol. 29

issue 2

282 – 314

Taking the example of French West Africa, this article addresses specific aspects of the current crisis in the West African Sahel from an historical perspective. Precisely, it focuses primarily on political challenges and some particular aspects of environmental threats in the first decades of the 20th century. Sixty years after their independence from France, the countries in the West African Sahel are considered world-wide as the states in permanent crisis. Their leaders have been accused of an inability to secure peace and stability for their people. This article argues that the study of the period when the Western Sahel was ruled by the French colonial administration may deepen our understanding of the issues important for this region today. Informed by current scholarship and the colonial reports from French West Africa, this article offers some thoughts on the various challenges that the colonial state faced in West African Sahel at the beginning of the 20th century.

THE BLACK’S RACE REVOLUTION: THE JOURNAL “LA RACE NÈGRE” AND THE CIRCULATION OF RADICAL IDEAS IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA IN 1927 – 1930

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Trnovec S.

Asian and African Studies

2022

vol. 31

issue 2

277 – 298

This paper discusses the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 on the circulation of anti-French and anti-colonial ideas between France and French West Africa. Its aim is to revisit communism in the African context as one of the significant ideologies of the modern world that challenged colonial empires long before the era of decolonisation. Based on the articles in the journal La Race Nègre, published by African intellectuals in Paris between 1927 and 1932 and distributed in French West Africa, this article seeks to demonstrate the variety of radical and revolutionary ideas influenced by communism and Pan- Africanism that circulated between France and French West Africa and how these ideas were articulated by African intellectuals. Supported by the French Communist Party, La Race Nègre offered a radically different picture of colonial reality than the official discourse of France’s “civilising mission” and was among the first press organs of African francophone intellectuals to demand the right to self-determination and independence for French colonial territories in sub-Saharan Africa. What is more, studying this dynamic may deepen our understanding of the roots of the anti-French sentiments and attitudes which are on the rise across present-day West African countries that once formed the colonies of French West Africa.

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CHALLENGES OF COLONIAL RULE IN WEST AFRICAN SAHEL – THE CASE OF FRENCH WEST AFRICA 1900 – 1930

THE BLACK’S RACE REVOLUTION: THE JOURNAL “LA RACE NÈGRE” AND THE CIRCULATION OF RADICAL IDEAS IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA IN 1927 – 1930