Disconsolate Empires: French, British and Belgian Military Involvement in Post-Colonial Sub-Saharan Africa

by Alain Rouvez, Michael Coco, Jean-Paul Paddack

This book provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of how three European powers have retained or mutated their levers of influence in their former African colonies since the latter gained independence in the 1960's. Thirty years of complex political and military relationships involving France, Britain, and Belgium and their former colonies are examined in this thought-provoking study, the lessons of which are increasingly relevant to the understanding of Euro-African affairs.

468 pages, Hardcover

First published August 26, 1994