Eurafrique rhetoric masked the total absence of African participation in its negotiation.

Evidence

Understood in this sense, Eurafrica actually exaggerated the gap between the two continents even as it combined them in a single term. The pro­cess of the proj­ect’s realization suggested the continuing asymmetry in the balance of power. Despite Senghor’s demand that “Eurafrique cannot be created without the consent of Africans,” the presence of Houphoët-­Boigny was the exception that proved the rule. The Treaty of Rome negotiations and debate in the French National Assembly about the treaty in 1957 happened other­wise without the presence or participation of African delegates. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 642

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels scholarship on other nominally collaborative colonial-development projects (e.g. the ‘Partnership’ framing of post-war development aid) where rhetoric masked exclusion. — connects to: Dialogue between Africa and the West is fraught when power is unequal

Broader Connections

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