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“Africa without France is the car without the driver. France without Africa is a car without fuel.”

As reported by Pierre Péan · Affaires africaines (Paris: Fayard, 1983)

Context Describing ties between France and its former African colonies at a time when Gabon's oil sector was dominated by the French state company Elf.

Portrait of Omar Bongo Ondimba
Omar Bongo OndimbaGabon · 1935–2009
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