Empire by Another Name: France’s Hegemony in Africa and the Tragedy of Cameroun.
By Emmanuel Darlington – Senior Investigative Correspondent It began in Haiti. France’s first and most humiliating colonial defeat, where Black people dared not only to break their chains but to demand recognition as equals. That single act of defiance set off a century-long obsession: maintaining power not through occupation, but through economic domination, elite capture,