The man who ran Francafrique

National Interest, The, Fall, 1997 by Kaye Whiteman

7 The title of a critique of French African policy produced by the radical groups Agir ici and Suivre was Jacques Chirac et le Fransafrique: Retour a la Case Foccart? (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995).

8 CFA stands for Communaute Financiere Africaine, or the franc zone, where the currency was freely convertible from country to country, and had fixed parity to the French franc.

Kaye Whiteman was for fifteen years editor, then editor-in-chief, then managing editor of the weekly magazine West Africa. He is now chief executive and general manager of the West Africa Publishing Company, which produces the magazine.