De Gaulle and decolonization, the Brazzaville episode

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A face-to-face meeting between Governor General Félix Eboué (G) and General Charles de Gaulle (D) in Brazzaville. Photo taken in April 1941. STF / AFP

By: Valérie Nivelon

The March of the World revisits the history of decolonization in this anniversary year of independence. 

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In the footsteps of the colonial past of the capital of the Congo, we seek to understand why the Brazzaville conference delivered by General De Gaulle, on January 30, 1944, became part of the collective memory as act 1 of decolonization. To the sound of the archives of RFI and the INA.

To read:
- Free France was African , Éric Jennings, ed. Perrin
- History of the Resistance: 1940-1945 , Olivier Wieviorka, ed. Perrin
- The Free French, the Other Resistance , Jean-François Muracciole, Tandandier ed.

To listen to again:
- Decolonization according to Frantz Fanon
- Freedom according to Bernard Dadié.

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