Francophone heritage in Africa
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2004
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Timothy Asobele, S.J.
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Promocomms Limited
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The aims and objectives of this seminal work is to help the predominantly I n dish-speaking Nigerian learners of French to understand the political history both colonial and pre-colonial of their French-speaking African brothers and to -e how French colonialism influenced their comportment, behaviour and choices. In doing so, we endeavour to make them aware of areas of differences
md similarities between them and their ECOW AS, OAU French-speaking brothers. This work is essentially pre-colonial and colonial in scope. Very little IS touched in this work on the post independence era which we hope will be the subject matter of another work in the course of the century. The first chapter defined the neologism «La Francophonie» and did a projection of this commonwealth of French-speaking countries. The second chapter devoted to the colonial history of French West Africa starts with an introductory note in French titled Histoire de I 'Afrique Occidentale. Chapter three is devoted to the history and geography of Senegal. The geographical location, population, the climate, vegetation, drainage system, cities, agriculture and commerce, the regions, communication and transportation systems, export and import trade. Even some of African writers, poets, playwrights, novelists, are given visibility in fuller details in subsequent chapters. This we hope will afford Nigerian students and policy makers alike the opportunity to understand certain crucial features of francophone countries and their ties with France and how such ties influence their comportment, taste, scale of preference, decision making process and their attitude to new alliances.
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Timothy Asobele, S.J. (2004). Francophone heritage in Africa.