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  • 7 - French black Africa

  • Edited by A. D. Roberts
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Africa
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    24 July 1986, pp 329-398

  • Summary

    The partition of Africa had left France in nominal possession of most of the region between the Sahara and the Congo river. The main lines of economic strategy had been shaped by the 'colonial party', a parliamentary cross-section of diverse elements. On 3 August 1914 Germany declared war on France; the next day, Britain declared war on Germany. In Togo, the conflict was soon over. As to the overall demographic effects of famine and disease in French black Africa, it is reasonably clear that total population declined between 1900 and 1910. The economic boom had contradictory results in France and Africa. While colonial firms made swift progress, Africans endured harsh exploitation without benefiting from the dynamic effects of inflation. The traumatic experience of the First World War and the profound upheavals caused by the depression had transformed the relations of French Africa with the outside world and had accordingly modified its internal structures.