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Author Powell, Nathaniel Kinsey, author.

Title France's wars in Chad : military intervention and decolonization in Africa / Nathaniel K. Powell
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages) : maps
Series African studies series ; 150
African studies series ; 150.
Contents "Experts in decolonization" -- Limousin -- The Claustre Affair -- The empire strikes back : French intervention and return to war -- Nigeria enters the scene -- The decline and fall of the Central African Empire -- Libya invades -- Endgame -- Conclusions : the collapse of a neocolonial order
Summary "Shortly before midnight on August 10 1960, the famous writer André Malraux stepped onto a balcony in front of a large crowd in Fort-Lamy, the capital of the French colony of Chad. As French Minister of Culture, he had come as President Charles de Gaulle's official representative to preside over the ceremonies marking the territory's independence. While Malraux invoked Chad's historical role as a launching pad for Free French Forces in the Second World War and the linked destiny of the two nations, the lights suddenly went out. A power shortage had plunged Fort-Lamy into darkness. Someone in Malraux's entourage scrambled to find a flashlight so he could finish the speech and so François Tombalbaye, Chad's leader, could read his. With this inauspicious beginning, independent Chad would soon embark on a tragic path leading to decades of violent conflict, foreign interventions, state collapse, and bloody dictatorship"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Series numbering from publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 07, 2021)
Subject International relations
SUBJECT France -- Relations -- Chad
Chad -- Relations -- France
Chad -- History, Military
Central African Republic -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85021863
Decolonization -- Chad
Subject Central African Republic
Chad
France
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020012890
ISBN 9781108771610
1108771610
110880697X
9781108806978
9781108800525
1108800521
Other Titles Military intervention and decolonization in Africa