Neocolonialism

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches neocolonialism through the history of African independence and current events in the Sahel. Presenting Adotevi's Négritude et négrologues, he recalls the "Marxist prehistory" of independence, now obscured by identity discourse. He also mentions the hopes dashed by neocolonisation, with the World Bank and the IMF. The session also returns to the Guinean episode of 1958, which shows how France prepared independences without a break1. After the coup in Niger, he takes up the American formula from the Vietnam War, "yellowing the corpses", to interpret a possible ECOWAS intervention. He challenges development aid and the argument of fighting jihadism, and argues that gunboat policy continues under cover of formal democracy2. In 2026, responding to Emmanuel Macron's remarks, he gives the Malian crisis its "historical depth". He links it to the Tuareg card played since the OAS, the secession of Katanga against Lumumba, Niger's uranium and the CFA franc. In his view, imperialism seeks to prevent the "critical mass" of a unified Africa. He sets against it a progressive Francophonie, heir to the French Revolution3.

1. 1Adotevi : Négritude et négrologues (1)17 Jun 2017
2. 2SPÉCIAL NIGER : Faut-il "noircir les cadavres" ?7 Aug 2023
3. 3MALI : Dominique PAGANI RÉAGIT aux propos d'Emmanuel MACRON au sommet Africa Forward16 May 2026

Introduction produced automatically from the 3 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.