{"id":1661,"date":"2017-12-06T09:24:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T09:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2017-12-06T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T09:24:35","slug":"what-frances-macron-really-means-when-he-says-africa-needs-to-look-after-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"What France\u2019s Macron really means when he says Africa needs to look after itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Big Africa Speech is a ritual for every French president. For better or worse, it serves as the tone-setter for his Africa policy, and signals his approach to the tangle of political and business networks known as Fran\u00e7afrique.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1141401\/francafrique-macron-hails-thomas-sankara-preaches-cfa-independence-but-nothings-changed\/\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Article originally published on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1141401\/francafrique-macron-hails-thomas-sankara-preaches-cfa-independence-but-nothings-changed\/\">QUARTZ Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Africa Speech is a ritual for every French president. For better or worse, it serves as the tone-setter for his Africa policy, and signals his approach to the tangle of political and business networks known as Fran\u00e7afrique. Read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,88,252],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-africa","tag-francafrique","tag-france"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}