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- Title
Of colonial futures and an administrative Alamo: investment, reform and the loi cadre (1956) in French West Africa.
- Authors
Smith, Andrew W. M.
- Abstract
The loi cadre (1956) was not a final submission to the political realities of a moribund empire. Rather, it was an attempt to redefine the way France interacted with her colonies. This was perhaps most telling in French West Africa, where the co-option of political elites was the spearhead of a greater swathe of subtle reforms. Administrators effectively separated the economic governance of French West Africa from political reality. This allowed for an increasing dynamism in the political foreground, granting autonomy to local assemblies and playing off interest groups against each other whilst strengthening the economic fundamentals that bound French West Africa to the metropole. This article examines the interactions between government reforms and private investment to highlight the para-political interests inherent in colonial administration, helping to outline the continuities that defined the postcolonial relationship.
- Subjects
AFRICA; NINETEEN fifty-six, A.D.; POLITICAL reform -- History; ECONOMIC reform; SUFFRAGE; FRENCH-speaking West African history, 1884-1960; AFRICAN politics &; government; FRENCH colonies; ADMINISTRATION of French colonies; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
French History, 2014, Vol 28, Issue 1, p92
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crt090