The African Baguette

The African Baguette

The African Baguette explores France's influence in Francophone Africa. From politics to education, AfBag specifically seeks to uncover the relationship between the French language and two local languages of French Africa: 1) the Wolof... [more]

The African Baguette explores France's influence in Francophone Africa. From politics to education, AfBag specifically seeks to uncover the relationship between the French language and two local languages of French Africa: 1) the Wolof language in Sengal and 2) the Berber languages in Morocco. France's footprint in both North Africa and the 14 West African countries of the Franc Zone is most evident through the use and plurality of languages. While the footprints are relatively easy to uncover, the stigma of the footprints' are more ambiguously in place. Let's reveal and reflect upon the raison d'etre in l'Afrique Francophone.

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