Indépendances africaines · 4 chapitres · FR
The colony that said no to de Gaulle
On 25 August 1958, in a small overheated hall in Conakry, a thirty-six-year-old trade unionist in a white boubou threw at General de Gaulle a sentence Africa would repeat: we prefer poverty in freedom to wealth in slavery. Yet his speech asked for union with France and ended with « Long live France ». It took twenty more days, a left wing, students and two rivals who demanded independence before him for his party to say no. On 28 September Guinea was the only colony of French Africa to refuse, and the two rivals did not survive the regime it gave birth to.
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