{"id":60370,"date":"2026-05-12T10:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=60370"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:54:38","slug":"macrons-english-pivot-in-nairobi-a-real-break-from-francafrique-or-mere-window-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=60370","title":{"rendered":"Macron&#8217;s English Pivot in Nairobi: A Real Break from &#8216;Fran\u00e7afrique&#8217; or Mere Window Dressing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris has chosen Kenya, an English-speaking nation, to host the high-profile <strong>&#8216;Africa Forward&#8217; summit in Nairobi<\/strong> \u2014 a striking symbolic shift that has replaced the French-language exclusivity that once defined such gatherings, previously reserved for Francophone African states.<\/p>\n<p>French President Macron, who has repeatedly claimed that the era of <em>&#8216;Fran\u00e7afrique&#8217;<\/em> is over, found no difficulty switching to English to deliver France&#8217;s message of so-called cooperation and partnership with African nations.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively at the summit, Macron pledged that France&#8217;s old neocolonial practices had ended since 2017, replaced by what he called <strong>&#8216;fair partnership and respect for sovereignty.&#8217;<\/strong> He went even further, audaciously claiming that the French are the true champions of African unity \u2014 &#8216;Africanism&#8217; \u2014 despite widespread knowledge that France systematically dismantled African solidarity and removed leaders who dared challenge its grip on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>The critical question remains: is this a genuine reset in French Africa policy, or simply a backdoor maneuver after Paris was militarily expelled from the Sahel region?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris has chosen Kenya, an English-speaking nation, to host the high-profile &#8216;Africa Forward&#8217; summit in Nairobi \u2014 a striking symbolic shift that has replaced the French-language exclusivity that once defined such gatherings, previously reserved for Francophone African states. French President Macron, who has repeatedly claimed that the era of &#8216;Fran\u00e7afrique&#8217; is over, found no difficulty &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}