France was kinda shitty at doing imperialism by the decolonization period. They couldn’t let go of their colonies, but they also couldn’t win against them. They lost Indochina and Algeria to resistance movements because they were a crippled country after ww2. So honestly, by the late period at least, France was very much trying to hold onto their “global empire” completely unsuccessfully. Uk was strong until the end, unfortunately, and crushed many movements in places such as Malaysia.
Honestly outside SE Asia and Algeria France has been far more successful than Britain in maintaining imperial power. West Africa is still basically controlled by French interests, as Sankara pointed out (and was shot for his trouble)
Is France not a global empire? There's french colonies and ex-colonies all over the world.
France was kinda shitty at doing imperialism by the decolonization period. They couldn’t let go of their colonies, but they also couldn’t win against them. They lost Indochina and Algeria to resistance movements because they were a crippled country after ww2. So honestly, by the late period at least, France was very much trying to hold onto their “global empire” completely unsuccessfully. Uk was strong until the end, unfortunately, and crushed many movements in places such as Malaysia.
Honestly outside SE Asia and Algeria France has been far more successful than Britain in maintaining imperial power. West Africa is still basically controlled by French interests, as Sankara pointed out (and was shot for his trouble)
Francafrique has become much less of a factor since then. Not that its not a thing, but its less of a thing.
yes right, but as replacing the british empire as being on top.