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He was the first person of West African origin elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, [12]: 111 and the first to hold a position in the French government. Ngalandou Diouf , elected in 1909 to represent the commune of Rufisque at the advisory General Assembly ( Conseil Général ) of Saint-Louis, then capital of colonial Senegal.
French people of African-American descent (15 P) French people of Angolan descent (2 C, 3 P) B. French people of Beninese descent (3 C, 14 P)
The French encountered many forms of slave resistance during the 17th and 18th centuries, in Saint Domingue, which later came to be called Haiti. Formerly enslaved Africans who fled to remote mountainous areas were called marron ( French ) or mawon ( Haitian Creole ), meaning 'escaped slave'.
South African people of French descent (1 C, 44 P) T. Togolese people of French descent (8 P) Tunisian people of French descent (2 C, 9 P) Z.
Tirailleur from the Bambara people (Mali) (engraving, 1890). The Senegalese Tirailleurs were formed in 1857 by Louis Faidherbe, Governor-General of French West Africa, because he lacked sufficient French troops to control the territory and meet other requirements of the first phase of colonization.
Evans, Martin. "From colonialism to post-colonialism: the French empire since Napoleon." in Martin S. Alexander, ed., French History since Napoleon (1999) pp: 391–415. Gamble, Harry. Contesting French West Africa: Battles over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950 (U of Nebraska Press, 2017). 378 pp. online review
Some critics of French foreign policy in Africa question the deep commitment that France has with the former French colonies, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, given the low financial and commercial interest that the countries of the CFA franc zone represent for French companies.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:French sportspeople. It includes French sportspeople that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Black French sportspeople who hold French nationality or have represented France.