French West Africa

Dahomey Amazones - Recruiting women into the Dahomean army. Gezo’s female troops were kept well supplied with tobacco, alcohol and as many as 50 slaves to each warrior. “When amazons walked out of the palace, they were preceded by a slave girl carrying a bell. The sound told every male to get out of their path, and look the other way.” To even touch these women meant death.

Eric Prince, Biafra mercenary

map Guinea

Pietro di Brazzà opened up for France the right bank of the Congo. The capital of the Congo Is named Brazzaville after him.

Birao- the northernmost point of the Central African Republic on the border with Chad and Sudan

Chapter 14: French West Africa - The Last of the Sharks.

Moroccan Sultan Abdelhafid, who led the resistance to French expansionism

French mercenary Roger Faulques

Stamp 1906

Stamp

Gabon stamp

Mauritania women

stamp

Stamp - French Sudan (Mali) 1931. Entry to the Residence at Djenné.

French troops land in Madagascar in 1895

Guinea fowl

The "Scramble for Africa" is the name for the colonization and of African territory by European powers between 1881 and 1914. In 1870, only 10 percent of Africa was under European control; by 1914 it was 90 percent, with only Abyssinia and Liberia still being independent.

Gabon, Albert Schweizer

Captives of Samori Ture (1830-1900) Islamic founder of Wassoulou Empire

Cameroun village

Burkina Faso Map

A French colonial railroad inspector in 1904

Cellule Africaine operations

Banque internationale pour l'Afrique occidentale, Dakar

West African mask

Birao

Wassoulou natives

Stamp Mali

market in N'Djamena, Chad's Capital

stamp CAR

Gabon map

Stamp, Dahomey

The former Governor's palace on Gorée Island, Dakar, Senegal

Market on old airport of Bangui, capital of Central African Republic

Central African Republic map

algeria map

Pointe Noire Congo-Brazaville

Gabon map

Benin Voodoo

Saint Louis, Senegal

Stamp, Niger

Family of Assinie, Côte, d'Ivoire

stamp, Côte, d'Ivoire

Ségou, French Sudan

French post at Bakel on the Senegal River, 1887

French West Africa in 1892 signs treaty siwith Famienkro tribe in Ivory Coast.

Central African Republic

Map West Africa

ECOWAS 1975 - fifteen countries

Nouakchott, Mauritania

Congo-Brazzaville map

Chad, Camel country

Samori Ture

Senegal banknote with shark

Comoé River - Côte d'Ivoire

Ancienne capitale du royaume Bambara, fondée par Biton Mamari Koulibali, la ville de Ségou

The empire of Samory Touré, with the capital at Sanankoro, Niger

Médine, French Soudan

The "Slave Coast"

King Gezo

Money

Arlit, Niger - uranium district

Bamako, Mali

Flooding in Niamey, capital of Niger

Elf Aquitaine

Mali map

Mauritania

Western Sahara map

Morocco map

Tunisia map

Benin map

Togo

Togo map

Burkina Faso magic dancer

Niger River

Moroccan soldiers at "The Wall"

Tunisia - Arab spring

Ghardaia, Algeria

Marrakech

West African man

Le "Monsieur", Michel de Bonnecorse, ancien chef de la cellule africaine

Belgian flintlock screw double barrel pistol, used in the American civil war.

Hammerhead sharks

Finning Hammerhead sharks

Jacques Foccart - son vrai nom Koch, était l'élément central de l'impérialisme français en Afrique.

Niger uranium mines

Elf Aquitaine

African animism

Dogs of War

Rolf Steiner - German mercenary

Sahei drought