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33 Int'l Conciliation [iii] (1959-1961)
French-Speaking West Africa in Transition

handle is hein.journals/intcon33 and id is 385 raw text is: FRENCH-SPEAKING WEST AFRICA IN TRANSITION We deeply regret that because of circumstances beyond our control publication of the May 1960 issue of International Con- ciliation has been so long delayed. The material contained in the present article is, however, despite the date line, as up-to- date as anything can be on a region that is evolving so fast. The study deals with the development of political move- ments, ideas, and institutions among the 25,000,000 inhabitants of the independent West African states formerly under French rule. Refreshingly, the colonial experience and the era of de- colonization are treated as but phases in an historical process. The authors thus avoid the Europe-centered view so common in analyses of African politics. As they point out, European rule has been relatively short-lived in most of West Africa. The memory of the great African empires has helped to shape the horizons of the future and the African leaders of today have been forged by African concepts of African needs. The great mass parties that have grown up since 1945 have evolved their own individuality in response to local pressures and conditions. In their final chapter the authors consider the implications of the current political movements, ideas, and institutions for the future development of Africa. What are the forces that foster separatism? What are the forces that draw the individual states together in pursuit of common objectives? What is the residual heritage of France's political, economic, military, and cultural roles? THOMAS HODGKIN, presently research associate at the In- stitute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal, was for several years a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of Nigerian Perspectives (1960) and Nationalism in Colonial Africa (1956). RUTH SCHACHTER is Research Associate at the African Studies Program and Assistant Professor of Government at Boston University. Sometime Fulbright scholar in Paris, she prepared her doctoral dissertation at Nuffield Col- lege, Oxford. ANNE WINSLOW February 1961 Editor-in-Chief

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