A revised and updated edition of Manning's widely acclaimed Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1985 (1988).

History of the French-speaking countries of Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Zaire and the Central A

Unique in its analysis both of literary and linguistic techniques, this text draws together extracts from novels written in French by writers from Francophone a