Françafrique

French

Etymology

Blend of France +‎ Afrique.

  • 1945 August 15, Jean Piot, L'Aurore: organe de la résistance républicaine:
    Il nous faudra surtout concentrer notre effort sur l'essentiel — sur ce qui, dans le monde nouveau, doit faire, à l'avantage commun, bloc avec nous: sur ce que j'appellerai la «Françafrique».
    Above all, we will need to concentrate our effort on what is essential — on what, in the new world, must form a solid bloc with us for the common advantage: on what I will call Françafrique.

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Proper noun

Françafrique f

  1. (often derogatory) relations between France and its former colonies in Africa; often characterized by users of the term as exploitative, corrupt and/or neocolonialistic

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