The Global South Must Be at the Center of the Making of a Just Global Economic Order
The US-dominated economic order constructed after Bretton Woods did not take the Global South into consideration. A new, just system will have to change that.
4 Articles by: Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla is a Senegalese development economist and a founding member of the Collective for the Renewal of Africa (CORA). He is the coauthor of Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story (London: Pluto, 2021).
Emmanuel Macron’s Africa Policies Are Still Rooted in French Colonialism
Today’s Africa-France summit is a typical show of French president Emmanuel Macron’s imperial grandstanding. But it wouldn’t be possible without business leaders and intellectuals who paint France’s interference in its old colonies in a humanitarian light.
How France Continues to Dominate Its Former Colonies in Africa
In France’s former African colonies, imperialist monetary policies from Paris continue to cripple domestic economies and undermine democracy. Colonialism in Africa won’t have meaningfully come to an end until true economic sovereignty is allowed to flourish.
The Franc Zone, a Tool of French Neocolonialism in Africa
François Mitterrand warned that France would be irrelevant to twenty-first-century history unless it maintained its control of Africa. Its instrument for so doing is the CFA Franc — a colonial currency entrenching French rule more than fifty years after independence.