Navigating the Fourth Republic

West African University Students between Metropolitan France and Dakar

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ID12773530
AuthorsHarry Gamble (corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume39
Issue3
Pages73-99
Publication date2021-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrench Politics Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1537-6370 • E-ISSN: 1558-5271
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/fpcs.2021.390304
OpenAlexW4206415643
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Through the end of the Third Republic, only tiny numbers of West African students managed to study at France’s universities. Barriers to higher education began to fall after World War II, especially after African populations collectively gained citizenship. Higher education became a high-stakes policy area, as French officials and West African students and politicians vied to influence the parameters and possibilities of the postwar order. Amid escalating concerns about West African student migrations to the metropole, French officials eventually opened an Institute of Higher Studies in Dakar. However, this inchoate institution ended up highlighting the fundamental ambiguities of overseas citizenship. As West African students turned increasingly to anti-colonial activism, French authorities finally committed to establishing a full university in Dakar. Paradoxically, the construction and consolidation of this French university took place during the period of active decolonization

Citizenship · Colonial period · Colonialism · Consolidation (business · Decolonization · Economic growth · Economic history · Higher education · Institution · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · North African History and Literature

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