Africa: Whither Franco-African Relations After the Cannes Summit?

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Windhoek — TWO weeks ago, Jacques Chirac "L'Africain" said au-revoir in Cannes to over 30 African heads of state at what was arguably his last Franco-African summit.

With that comes the end of an era in Franco-African relations, not only because of Chirac's ambivalent engagement as an avid connoisseur and activist for Africa, but also because the Cannes summit represents possibly the last vestiges of the sulphurous "Francafrique" as we have come to know it.

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