Deconstructing the concept of decolonisation

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Notes

1 Free translation.

2 Meaning people from France in the European continent: the Metropole.

3 A level of government below the national level, whereby the colonial governor and other colonial institutions were systematically replaced with structures equivalent to those of the Metropole, including the French legal code and judicial system.

4 Césaire’s phrase to a French who had accosted him: “Eh, little nigger!”. This happened around the time L’Etudiant Noir (The Black Student) was created.

5 Currency of 14 African countries: Communauté Financière Africaine in West Africa and Coopération Financière en Afrique centrale in central Africa (Africa Financial Community/Cooperation).

6 A béké of Martinique.