Monday, October 22, 2007
France in Africa
Greg Mills (Business Day)—Veteran French mercenary “Colonel” Bob Denard’s death this week signals more than the end of an era when soldiers of fortune believed postcolonial Africa to be their playground. It also comes at a moment when French foreign policy towards Africa is striking out in a fresh, more positive direction. Indeed, French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s speech to students in Senegal this July offered an early, if controversial, indication of change in his government’s Africa policy. The first part of his address identified the wrongs committed by France in Africa. Then he made comment on what was wrong with Africa.
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