The Comité De l'Afrique Française, the Chad Plan, and the Origins of Fashoda

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ID8959464
AuthorsTREVOR WYN ROBERTS (0000-0002-0515-8152, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume64
Issue2
Pages310-331
Publication date2020-04-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x20000023
OpenAlexW3018727856
LanguageFR
Citations received2
References cited17

The Comité de l'Afrique française, founded in 1890, is often regarded as the epitome of colonial nationalism. On closer examination, however, the Comité and its signature policy, the Chad plan, can be shown to have acted as instruments of choice for financial and commercial lobbies with particular interests in the Congo. The Chad plan and its successor and complement, the Upper Nile policy, were primarily intended to advance the interests of King Leopold and his French sympathizers. The unavoidable clash with British strategic and commercial interests in the region that ensued helped to unleash the forces of nationalism and led, ineluctably, to the Fashoda crisis and the conquest of Chad

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