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‘King of West Africa’? Bernard Bourdillon and the Politics of the West African Governors' Conference, 1940–1942

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

Ayodeji Olukoju
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The outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 and the collapse of French resistance to the German onslaught a year later were momentous events which had far-reaching implications for France, Britain, and their colonies. In West Africa, the war affected existing patterns of inter-state relations within and across the French/British imperial divides, which were further complicated for the British by the emergence of two blocs in the French colonial empire – Vichy and Free French. It was in this context that the West African Governors' Conference was created in 1940 to coordinate the war effort and to manage relations with the French colonies.

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Itinerario , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 17 - 38
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2006

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