Ndongo Samba Sylla is senior research and program manager at the West Africa office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Dakar. He is author of Africa’s Last Colonial Currency and The Fair Trade Scandal.

March 3, 2023

Analysis

Wall Street Consensus a la Française

Development agendas at the Gabon One Forest Summit

, Ndongo Samba Sylla

Since his election in 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron has periodically committed to resetting France’s relationship with Africa. In 2020, his so-called Macron Doctrine denounced the Washington Consensus for creating a “capitalism that has become financialized, that has become over-concentrated…