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'Françafrique'
With the violent death of Idriss Déby in April 2021, French Africa policy once again came under the media spotlight. The mutual dependencies more than 60 years after independence are complex – but not only in the field of foreign and security policy. The large number of African cultural figures or politically active diaspora groups, as well as court cases against sons of African presidents, make France appear to be an “exceptional case” with a high degree of “entanglement” with Africa. But is this really true? How can French entanglements with the continent be described and classified?

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