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French West Africa (green) after World War II. Status. Federation of French colonies. Capital. Saint Louis (1895–1902) Dakar (1902–1960) Common languages. French (official) Arabic, Fula, Songhay, Hausa, Mossi, Mandinka, Wolof, Bambara, Berber languages, Mande languages widely spoken.
Essex: Longman Group UK Limited. See sections on French West Africa Boahen, Adu et al Topics in West African History. Second Edition, 1986. Essex: Longman Group UK Limited. A text was used in West Africa as an introduction to the history of the region. Crowder, Michael History of French West Africa until Independence.
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Overview. French West Africa. Quick Reference. Following the establishment of French settlements on the African west coast in 1659 and a gradual extension of the French West African territory during the nineteenth century, it was created a colonial territory under a Governor‐General in 1904.
French West Africa. French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Côte d’Ivoire, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin), and Niger.
History of Senegal. The Four Communes (French: Quatre Communes) of Senegal were the four oldest colonial towns in French West Africa. In 1848 the Second Republic extended the rights of full French citizenship to the inhabitants of Saint-Louis, Dakar, Gorée, and Rufisque.
In the eyes of French military planners, the conquest of large portions of Africa and parts of Asia in the late nineteenth century paid immense dividends a generation later when the empire provided hundreds of thousands of men to the metropole during World War I. 21 While Southeast Asia and North Africa sent both workers and soldiers, the sub ...
French West Africa is Number 100 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the conclusion of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The study covers the Government-General of West Africa, which was formed in 1895 and reconstituted by a French presidential decree on October 1, 1902.
