Ldid you know? Even today, many African countries continue to pay a colonial tax in France, despite independence. For the newly independent countries, compromises had to be found with France. Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of the Republic of Togo, a small country in West Africa, came up with a solution that might appease the French:
Not wanting to continue to undergo French rule, he refused to sign the colonization pact proposed by De Gaule, but agreed in return to pay an annual debt to France for the so-called benefits obtained during the French colonization.
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Great atlas of colonial empires - from the first colonizations to decolonizations (XNUMXth-XNUMXst century)
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Release Date | 2019-05-15T00:00:01Z |
Edition | 2e edition |
Language | Français |
Number Of Pages | 288 |
Publication Date | 2019-05-15T00:00:01Z |