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A man from Labé, Guinea, speaking Pular and West African French. African French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 320 million people in Africa in 2023 or 67% of the French-speaking population of the world [1] [2] [3] spread across 34 countries and territories.
French Africa includes all the historic holdings of France on the African continent. Françafrique. Map of French colonies in Africa (in green), ca. 1922.
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 is an official language in 27 independent nations. French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 50 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1]
This page lists French citizens of African ancestry or national origin. ... French people of African-Jewish descent (5 C) French people of Fulbe descent (3 P) G.
Arnaud Montebourg French father and Algerian-French mother, former minister [2] Sami Nair, Euro-MP (1999-2004) Daphna Poznanski-Benhamou, national MP (2012-2013) Tokia Saïfi, Euro-MP, former Secretary of State; Gérard Sebaoun, national MP (2012-) Dominique Strauss-Kahn politician, French Jewish father and Tunisian Jewish mother
Many of these settlers were allocated farms in an area later called Franschhoek, Dutch for "French corner", in the present-day Western Cape province of South Africa. The valley was originally known as Olifantshoek ("Elephant's Corner"), so named because of the vast herds of elephants that roamed the area.
Kirikou and the Sorceress (French: Kirikou et la Sorcière, [kiʁiku e la sɔʁsjɛʁ]) is a 1998 French-language animated adventure fantasy film written and directed by Michel Ocelot. Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, [ 4 ] it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba.