France has maintained an economic and cultural stranglehold on its former colonies, backed by a significant military presence. Far from being decolonised, the former French colonies have experienced an increase in French economic entrenchment in the post‐independence era. In important ways the mechanisms of French neo‐colonialism are different from those of the British.
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