No Francafrique

Anyway you could avoid Francafrique and France relationship with it's former African colonies resemble that of Britain

What would be the impact on French Africa and France itself
 
Biggest question is why France would do this? Some severe economic issue in the post-WWII era where they don't even bother to go "back" to their colonies but instead focus on France proper, maybe a Communist France which genuinely seeks to move away from colonialism in favour of helping local leftists develop in a way you couldn't really call "neocolonialism"? The entire thing started as an outsourcing of French colonialism to local elites after all--that's hard to stop with the trends in both Europe and Africa after World War II.
 
I can't stop smiling at this, considering that Francafrique is currently at the midst of the debate over the current Italian-French relations and certainly there is here who dreams to dismantle it...
 
Biggest question is why France would do this? Some severe economic issue in the post-WWII era where they don't even bother to go "back" to their colonies but instead focus on France proper, maybe a Communist France which genuinely seeks to move away from colonialism in favour of helping local leftists develop in a way you couldn't really call "neocolonialism"? The entire thing started as an outsourcing of French colonialism to local elites after all--that's hard to stop with the trends in both Europe and Africa after World War II.
A big reason for the French fixation on their colonial empire during the last several decades was precisely that, their huge economic problems. The French were convinced that their colonial empire was necessary for their economic prosperity, that they needed its resources and size to rebuild economically, enable exports to the United States to make up their trade deficit with the US, and provide for their continued competitiveness in the world. The turn to empire was driven by French weakness, and making France weaker, unless if it is completely impossible for France to hold onto the empire and it spun out of control, would probably drive them even more towards their colonial empire.

Similarly, the French communist party were not anti-colonial per se, at least initially. During the 1930s they stressed for the need for a continued mutually beneficial relationship between France and its colonies, and so their vision would be a reorganization of the French empire, rather than simply breaking it up - at least at first. It probably would achieve the goals of destroying the Françafrique in the cradle, but more by breaking French influence and putting the French into opposition with the British and Americans, rather than a serious intent on the part of the French administration to decolonize.
 
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I can't stop smiling at this, considering that Francafrique is currently at the midst of the debate over the current Italian-French relations and certainly there is here who dreams to dismantle it...

Well if there is no Franceafrique, 'who we know' will need to find another pet conspiracy theory to start the usual 2 minutes of hate against France.
 
Well if there is no Franceafrique, 'who we know' will need to find another pet conspiracy theory to start the usual 2 minutes of hate against France.

It isn't a conspiracy theory when someone like Blaise Compaoré, dictator of Burkina Faso, meets with some French ministers to gain their blessing before he launches his coup against Thomas Sankara (and would rule until protests deposed him over 20 years later). It's a simple fact that France has strongly influenced the history of their former colonies, for better (stability is always worth something I guess) or for worse, as much as it's as fact that the United States supported corporate interests in overthrowing various governments. And to this day, it seems France is quite interested in their former colonies.

A big reason for the French fixation on their colonial empire during the last several decades was precisely that, their huge economic problems. The French were convinced that their colonial empire was necessary for their economic prosperity, that they needed its resources and size to rebuild economically, enable exports to the United States to make up their trade deficit with the US, and provide for their continued competitiveness in the world. The turn to empire was driven by French weakness, and making France weaker, unless if it is completely impossible for France to hold onto the empire and it spun out of control, would probably drive them even more towards their colonial empire.

Similarly, the French communist party were not anti-colonial per se, at least initially. During the 1930s they stressed for the need for a continued mutually beneficial relationship between France and its colonies, and so their vision would be a reorganization of the French empire, rather than simply breaking it up - at least at first. It probably would achieve the goals of destroying the Françafrique in the cradle, but more by breaking French influence and putting the French into opposition with the British and Americans, rather than a serious intent on the part of the French administration to decolonize.

This is true, but the OP asked for "no Francafrique". And as you noted, that's a hard thing to push even for the French Communists.
 
A more nationalistic France that tries to assert more control over its former colonies, or tries to hold onto colonies, and gets a lot of blowback from both the African countries and USSR/US intervention. That, or a communist France and the US sponsors the former colonies into breaking off relations.
 
A Commie France would have instead played the role of the overprotective big brother, and building an union of Socialist French African States (and I mind the French).
 
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