Quand Paris était le «hub» des ventes d’armes au régime sud-africain d’apartheid

Dans un livre d’enquête fondé sur des archives sud-africaines, Hennie Van Vuuren remet en cause plusieurs lieux communs sur l’isolement de l’Afrique du Sud sous l’apartheid, mais il dévoile aussi le rôle considérable joué par la France dans le trafic d’armes avec Pretoria, pendant que Giscard, Mitterrand et Chirac fermaient les yeux.

Read More

Article originally published on Mediapart

Beyond Françafrique: France outside of its traditional sphere of African influence (19th-21st centuries)

University of Portsmouth, 22 February 2017

 Convenors: Dr Anna Konieczna (Paris-Est Creteil), Prof. Tony Chafer (University of Portsmouth)


PROGRAMME 

1.00     Welcome

 

Panel I. Outside of the French Empire 1.15-2.45

 Discussant: Ed Naylor (University of Portsmouth)

 Jakob ZOLLMANN (Dr, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)

Witnesses to Competition or Participant Observers? French Missionaries in the Colonial Border Area of Angola and German Southwest Africa, ca. 1880 to 1919

Thomas Sharp (Oxford Brookes), A Trans-Imperial Decolonization: France and Francophone Africans in British West Africa, 1952-1964

 Alexandra Reza (University of Oxford), Présence Africaine and the struggle against colonialism in the Portuguese African colonies, 1953-1968

 COFFEE BREAK 2.45-3.00

 

Panel II. Levers of influence 3.00-4.30

 Discussant: Adrew Smith (UCL, London)

Roel VAN DER VELDE (Univeristy of Portsmouth)

Procedures and practices of French arms trade to South Africa, 1955-1965

 Melissa K BYRNES (Associate Professor, Southwestern University)

Passing the Torch on the Civilizing Mission: French Hopes for the Portuguese Empire in the 1960s

 Frank Gerits (University of Amsterdam), French Cultural Diplomacy in the Ideological Scramble for Africa (1953-1963)

 COFFEE BREAK 4.30-4.45

 

Panel III. Enlarging the pré carré 4.45-6.15

 Discussant: Prof. Tony Chafer

 Anna KONIECZNA (Paris-Est Creteil), French foreign policy in the non-French speaking Africa under Charles de Gaulle

 Gaia LOTT (Université de Florence)

La France, le Rwanda et le Burundi dans les années 1970

Nathaniel K. POWELL (Graduate Institute in Geneva)

France’s Cold War in Zaire, 1974-1979