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GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY HOUR ep 53

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) has sounded the tocsin for the CFA Franc. ‘What?!!” you will say, ‘What in the world is the CFA franc?’. Did the franc not cease to exist after the Euro was launched in 1999?

Well, in this conversation, Radhika Desai and Ndongo explain the origins, structure and working of the CFA franc, the colonial currency that France imposed on its colonies in the postwar period, and which persisted after they became independent in the 1960s. What was it? What role has it played in the subordination of the former French colonies to this day? What occasioned the AES’s opposition to it and how far have they gone in dismantling it?


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