{"product_id":"colonialism-devours-itself-gzsrard-prunier-9781911723653","title":"Colonialism Devours Itself: The Waning of Françafrique","description":"France is the only country that never decolonised its colonies, emotionally, financially or strategically. In the aftermath of losing the Second World War, notwithstanding de Gaulle's attempts to convince his people otherwise, the French knew the game was up. (The Resistance fighters were heroes; but heroes are lonely.) For France, after 1945, the Second World War blended into the early Cold War, which Paris jumped into the day before it began. It fought in Indochina, and lost again. The independence war dragged on in Algeria. Then France lost there, too--painfully, with millions of its ordinary citizens expelled to a homeland that many of them hardly knew. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Sub-Saharan Africa was still there. France produced a postcolonial antidote: Françafrique, France's sphere of influence (or 'backyard') over its former West and Central African colonies. France loved Africa. Some Frenchmen died for Françafrique; others made millions from it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe entire toxic edifice is now crumbling away. Young Africans are happy about this--but not so many of their parents, who often live in France. In his inimitable style, Gérard Prunier recounts a tragic transcultural saga, with one leg in the past and one in the future: the end of Françafrique.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gérard Prunier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1911723650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911723653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hurst \u0026amp; Co.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.59h x 5.45w x 1.16d","brand":"Gérard Prunier","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47305431220479,"sku":"9781911723653","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7fd5ee90-2e83-4547-a516-150d8a46ddf8.jpg?v=1758830861","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/colonialism-devours-itself-gzsrard-prunier-9781911723653","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}