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France's wars in Chad [Texte imprimé] : military intervention and decolonization in Africa / Nathaniel K. Powell, Lancaster University

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Titre(s)
  • France's wars in Chad [Texte imprimé] : military intervention and decolonization in Africa / Nathaniel K. Powell, Lancaster University
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge University Press, 2021
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XIV-360 p.) : carte ; 24 cm
Collection
  • African studies series 0065-406X 150
ISBN
  • 9781108488679
Appartient à la collection
  • African studies series 0065-406X 150
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 967.430 4 23
Note(s)
  • Bibliogr. p. 344-353. Notes bibliogr. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • "Shortly before midnight on August 10 1960, the famous writer André Malraux stepped onto a balcony in front of a large crowd in Fort-Lamy, the capital of the French colony of Chad. As French Minister of Culture, he had come as President Charles de Gaulle's official representative to preside over the ceremonies marking the territory's independence. While Malraux invoked Chad's historical role as a launching pad for Free French Forces in the Second World War and the linked destiny of the two nations, the lights suddenly went out. A power shortage had plunged Fort-Lamy into darkness. Someone in Malraux's entourage scrambled to find a flashlight so he could finish the speech and so François Tombalbaye, Chad's leader, could read his. With this inauspicious beginning, independent Chad would soon embark on a tragic path leading to decades of violent conflict, foreign interventions, state collapse, and bloody dictatorship"
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