{"id":2673,"date":"2020-08-10T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T08:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2020-08-17T09:07:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T08:07:54","slug":"the-1958-referendum-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2673","title":{"rendered":"The 1958 Referendum in French Sub-Saharan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In most of France&#8217;s colonial territories in sub-Saharan Africa there was a massive &#8216;yes&#8217; vote, with over 90% of those who turned out to vote voting in favour of joining the French Community. The two exceptions were Guin\u00e9e, where over 95% of those voting voted &#8216;No&#8217; to the Community, and Niger, where the turnout was low (only 37%) and just 78% of those who turned out to vote voted &#8216;Yes&#8217; to the Community. Here a prominent Nigerien historian says that, if the elections had been free and fair, \u2018No\u2019 would have won.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/fr\/afrique\/20100802-djibo-hamani-elections-avaient-ete-libres-le-niger-aurait-vote-non-referendum-gaull\">rfi Afrique<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most of France&#8217;s colonial territories in sub-Saharan Africa there was a massive &#8216;yes&#8217; vote, with over 90% of those who turned out to vote voting in favour of joining the French Community. The two exceptions were Guin\u00e9e, where over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2673\">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":[1],"tags":[252,609,416],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-france","tag-independence","tag-niger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","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=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}