Sékou Touré’s Guinea was the sole colony to choose secession in 1958.

Evidence

This would, in effect, be the terrible renunciation of grace that Sékou Touré’s Guinée had chosen, alone of the French Commonwealth, in 1958. Then, secondly, there was the option of “out-and-out identification with France, such as is implied in equality of rights…Dunkirk to Tamanrasset”. i.e., the old principle of “integration”. Or, finally: — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1050

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the reader’s interest across Africa — Guinea as the cautionary analogue de Gaulle held up before Algeria. — connects to: France preemptively evacuated Guinea’s monetary reserves before its independence vote — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 150; France punished Guinea by cutting veterans’ pensions and aid. — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 150; De Gaulle’s 1958 referendum forced African colonies to choose association or severance — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 933

Related

• De Gaulle’s 1958 referendum forced African colonies to choose association or severance (similarity 0.90)
• France punished Guinea by cutting veterans’ pensions and aid. (similarity 0.87)
• De Gaulle personally favored the association option over secession or integration. (similarity 0.85)
• French officials framed the cooperation agreements as the colonies’ reasonable choice (similarity 0.82)
• France preemptively evacuated Guinea’s monetary reserves before its independence vote (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle presented secession as one of Algeria’s three possible futures. (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle’s independence deals kept colonial elites aligned with France. (similarity 0.79)
• The 1958 French referendum defeated Pan-Somali unionism and installed French-aligned leadership in the Côte (similarity 0.78)