Emmanuel Macron hosts a different sort of Africa summit
A moment to air grievances takes place against a background of heightened tension
A YEAR AGO Achille Mbembe, a Cameroonian post-colonial writer, lambasted Emmanuel Macron’s Africa policy. Has France, he wrote, still not “understood that, far from being transitory, the discredit into which France has fallen is a structural and multi-generational phenomenon and not the result of the victimisation of a few ex-colonised people?”
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Liaisons douloureuses”
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