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One of the most famous of children’s stories is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, a whimsical account of a little boy from a far-away asteroid who happens into the Sahara Desert, where the stranded author encounters him. Saint-Exupéry was there, both in fact and fiction, as an airline pilot delivering mail for the Latocère air service that maintained a regular, if frequently disrupted, service between Toulouse, France and Dakar, Senegal, in the interwar period. Saint-Exupéry’s story emerges from one of the occasions of motor failure that he endured and as he waited in the desert for a relief plane.
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Notes
Robert Delavignette, Afrique occidentale française (Paris, 1931), p. 5.
On French colonial rule and its cultural impact in Africa, see Michael Crowder, West Africa Under Colonial Rule (Evanston, 1968)
G. Wesley Johnson, ed., Double Impact: France and Africa in the Age of Imperialism (Westport, 1985);
Prosser Gifford and Wm. Roger Louis, France and Britain in Africa: Imperial Rivalry and Colonial Rule (New Haven, 1971).
On the movement toward nationalism and independence, see Ruth Schachter-Morgenthau, Political Parties in French Speaking West Africa (Oxford, 1964);
Aristide P. Zolberg, Creating Political Order: The One-Party States of West Africa (Chicago, 1966);
Prosser Gifford and Wm. Roger Louis, eds, The Transfer of Power in Africa (New Haven, 1976).
On the French Community, see Yves Guena, Historique de la communauté (Paris, 1962).
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Betts, R.F. (1991). The Peaceful Devolution of Authority: Sub-Saharan Africa. In: France and Decolonisation 1900–1960. The Making of 20th Century. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27933-3_9
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