1987/06/01 by Michael C. Reed · 97 citations
Social Sciences · #African history and culture studies #Neocolonialism #Polity #Colonialism #Independence (probability theory) #Colonial period #Political science #Economic history #History #Ethnology #Economy #Law #Economics #Politics
paper · doi:10.1017/s0022278x00000392
published in The Journal of Modern African Studies 25(2), 283-320 (Cambridge University Press)
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French culture, economy, and polity have long dominated the small African country of Gabon. The French control of the colonial era, which reached its nadir in the 1898–1930 period of the brutal ‘concessionary companies’, has been replaced, since independence in 1960, by an insidious rapprochement with Paris, fashioned by Gabon's leadership. A French journalist long familiar with the continent has written, ‘Gabon is an extreme case, verging on caricature, of neocolonialism ’.