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Introduction – Tony Chafer and Alexander Keese
Part I: Zero hour approaches
1. Gaston Defferre’s Loi-Cadre and its application, 1956–57: last chance for a French African ‘empire-state’ or blueprint for decolonisation? – Martin Shipway
2. A Vocation for Independence: Guinean Nationalism in the 1950s – Mairi Mac Donald
3. French officials and the insecurities of change in sub-Saharan Africa: Dakar, 19 August 1960 re-visited – Alexander Keese
Part II: Military transitions
4. ‘Saving French West Africa’: The French army, African soldiers and military propaganda during the 1950s – Ruth Ginio
5. The French Army and Malian Independence (1956–1961) – Vincent Joly
6. Transfer of Military Power in Mauritania: From Ecouvillon to Lamentin (1956-1978) – Camille Evrard
Part III: Continuities and Connections
7. Franco-African Security Relations at Fifty: Writing Violence, Security, and the Geopolitical Imaginary – Bruno Charbonneau
8. French coopération in the field of education (1960-1980): A story of disillusionment – Samy Mesli
9. Jacques Foccart: Éminence grise for African affairs – Jean-Pierre Bat
Part IV: Anglo-French Relations
10. Whitehall, the French Community and the Year of Africa: Negotiating post-independence diplomacy in West Africa – Mélanie Torrent
11. A Transnational Decolonisation: Britain, France and the Rhodesian Problem, 1965–1969 – Joanna Warson
Part V: Nationalist trajectories, border issues and conflicted memories
12. The Changing Boundaries of Resistance: The UPC and France in Cameroonian History and Memory – Thomas Sharp
13. A fragmented and forgotten decolonisation: The end of European empires in the Sahara and their legacy – Berny Sèbe
14. Through the prism of the cinquantenaire: Côte d’Ivoire between refondation and Houphouët’s legacy – Kathrin Heitz
15. Chad’s political violence at 50: Bullets, ballots and bases – David Styan
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