2020/04/20 by TREVOR WYN ROBERTS · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #African history and culture studies #North African History and Literature #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #Nationalism #Political science #CONQUEST #Successor cardinal #Epitome #Foreign policy #Plan (archaeology) #Public administration #Economic history #History #Law #Ancient history #Politics #Archaeology #Art
paper · doi:10.1017/s0018246x20000023
openalex publication_date 2020/04/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract The Comité de l'Afrique française, founded in 1890, is often regarded as the epitome of colonial nationalism. On closer examination, however, the Comité and its signature policy, the Chad plan, can be shown to have acted as instruments of choice for financial and commercial lobbies with particular interests in the Congo. The Chad plan and its successor and complement, the Upper Nile policy, were primarily intended to advance the interests of King Leopold and his French sympathizers. The unavoidable clash with British strategic and commercial interests in the region that ensued helped to unleash the forces of nationalism and led, ineluctably, to the Fashoda crisis and the conquest of Chad.