Contesting Historical Divides in Francophone Africa.

Front cover -- Title pages -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Claire H. Griffiths: Introduction: Contesting historical divides in Francophone Africa: post-slavery, post-colonial, post-imperial -- Jonathan Derrick: Looking back to "France of 100 million inhabitants": Roots of the present in colonial French Africa -- David Perfect and Martin Evans: Trouble with the neighbours? Contemporary constructions and colonial legacies in relations between Senegal and The Gambia -- Martin Evans: Historiographies, nationalisms and conflict in Casamance, Senegal -- Simon Massey: Ties that bind and ties that don't: France's role in the Comoros archipelago -- Claire H. Griffiths: Shifting centres and static peripheries: Geographies of power in Francophone African development politics -- Brenda Garvey: Relocating the traditional in the Senegalese classroom -- Alice Burgin: The dialectics of negritude in Francophone African film: Mansour Sora Wade's "Ndeysaan -- Sarah Burnautzki: Negotiating postcoloniality in Francophone Africa literature -- Concluding remarks -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.

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