FrenchAfrica includes all the historic holdings of France on the African continent. Egypt (1798-1801) French Algeria (1830–1962) Protectorate of Tunisia...
AfricanFrench (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 167 million people in Africa...
French Equatorial Africa (French: Afrique équatoriale française, or AEF) was a federation of French colonial territories in Equatorial Africa which consisted...
French West Africa (French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal...
The French colonial empire (French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French...
by France in the North African Maghreb during the colonial era, namely Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. In contrast to French West Africa and French Equatorial...
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first mass migration of African Americans to France occurred as a result of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. When the French territory was transferred...
French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon under the control of Free France in World War II. It provided a political and territorial base for Free France and...
l'Empire)—later the French National Committee (Comité national français or CNF)—formed to govern French territories in central Africa, Asia, and Oceania...
Franco-Europeanisation in French colonies, most notably French West Africa and Madagascar. During the 19th century, French citizenship along with the...
of the Allied Powers, Free French forces in London and Africa, as well as the French Resistance. Nazi Germany invaded France in May 1940. Their rapid advance...
Black French people also known as French Black people or Afro-French (Afro-Français) are French people who are of African (including Malagasy people)...
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Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by...
The French Union (French: Union française) was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial empire system...
French Cameroon, also known as the French Cameroons (French: Cameroun), was a French mandate territory in Central Africa. It now forms part of the independent...
countries in Africa". Business Insider Africa. Retrieved 2 September 2023. Stein-Smith, Kathleen (17 March 2022). "Africa and the French language are...
Gabon, the only colony of French Equatorial Africa not to join Free France after the armistice, fell to invading Free French Forces from the neighbouring...
of the French Republic (PGFR; French: Gouvernement provisoire de la République française (GPRF)) was the provisional government of Free France between...
The French Liberation Army (French: Armée française de la Libération or AFL) was the reunified French Army that arose from the merging of the Armée d'Afrique...
France : '"... until the end of the fifteenth century, the French of the chancellery spread as a political and literary language because the French court...
1916 and 1960) FranceFrench West Africa: Mauritania Senegal French Sudan (now Mali) French Guinea (now Guinea) Ivory Coast Niger French Upper Volta (now...
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA or R.S.A.), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres...
The French Congo (French: Congo français) or Middle Congo (French: Moyen-Congo) was a French colony which at one time comprised the present-day area of...
colonial administrators (French: Gouverneur général de l'Afrique occidentale française) responsible for the territory of French West Africa, an area equivalent...