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    French West Africa (French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal...
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    In World War II, French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, AOF) was not a major scene of major fighting. Only one large-scale action took place...
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    Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française) RN  Niger 1977 AOF − 1960 République du Niger (French). Formerly part of French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française)...
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  • See also Eastern Thrace; Greek Occupation Issues Acronym for Afrique Equatoriale Française which was sometimes used as an inscription. Refer French Equatorial...
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    as High Commissioner of North Africa and French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, AOF), a move that enraged de Gaulle, who refused to recognise...
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    within the much larger federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF) in 1899. Meanwhile, Britain had (via the Royal...
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    aluminium-bronze 5, 10, and 25 francs. All carried the name "Afrique Occidentale Française". In 1957, 10 and 25 franc coins were issued with the name of...
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    of whom were used in conventional units. French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française, AOF) was a federation of African colonies. Senegalese and other...
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    within the much larger federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF) in 1899. The 1880s saw an intense competition...
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    paysans de l'empire: écoles rurales et imaginaire colonial en Afrique occidentale française dans les années 1930". Cahiers d'Études Africaines. 49 (3):...
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    became constituents of the federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF). In the meantime the French had been pushing...
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  • ethnographer. He published over 3500 postcards of French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française). These were published during his lifetime, with or without...
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    a constituent of the federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF). In the meantime in Algeria France had been...
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    French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF) and French Equatorial Africa (Afrique équatoriale française, AEF), the border between...
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    French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF) and French Equatorial Africa (Afrique équatoriale française, AEF). The Italians colonised...
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    later included within the federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF). The British likewise extended their rule...
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    pages ISBN 2-7068-1503-5 Babacar Fall, Le Travail forcé en Afrique Occidentale Française (1900–1946), Karthala, 2000, 336 pages ISBN 2-86537-372-X Denys...
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  • 339, 340, 341, 360, 405 et 483 du code pénal applicable en Afrique occidentale française" [Decree № 47-229 of 19 November 1947 modigying or completing...
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    a constituent of the federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF). The following year on 25 February 1905 France...
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    a constituent of the federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française). In the meantime the French had been pushing south from the...
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    a constituent of the federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF). Mauritania had been largely 'pacified' by...
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    French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF) and French Equatorial Africa (Afrique équatoriale française, AEF). Britain and France...
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  • Histoire coloniale: développement et inégalités dans l'ancienne Afrique occidentale française (in French). Atelier national de reproduction des thèses. "Elise...
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  • coloniale en Afrique occidentale française. p. 17. Ministère de la marine (1863). "La Revue maritime". 9. Les Grandes édtions francaises: 631. {{cite...
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    occidentale française; Afrique occidentale française (1922-01-01). "Bulletin du Comité d'études historiques et scientifiques de l'Afrique occidentale...
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    d'Émission de l'Afrique Occidentale Française et du Togo was spun off from BAO to administer the Franc des colonies françaises d'Afrique (FCFA) (25 December...
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    temps des marabouts: itinèraires et stratègies islamiques en Afrique occidentale française [The time of the marabouts: Islamic itineraries and strategies...
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  • 1916) 15 July 1958 – 15 August 1960 Yvon Bourges (b. 1921) in Afrique Occidentale Française (AOF), i.e. French West Africa, the last of a long list of governors-general...
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    a constituent of the federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF). A decree of 17 October 1899 transferred the...
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    later became part of the federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF). Britain and France delimited a border between...
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