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This article explains how political reforms in the late colonial state actually helped France maintain political and economic influence in West Africa over the long term, even after independence.
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This article considers the roots of neo-colonialism, specifically relating political reform to business interests and subtle forms of political power.
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This page is a summary of: Of colonial futures and an administrative Alamo: investment, reform and the loi cadre (1956) in French West Africa*, French History, February 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/fh/crt090.
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