France left its colonies. Its empire did not.

Darwin Books announces the release of AFRICA: THE EMPIRE FRANCE REFUSED TO END, the new book by Marcus A. Sterling.

For decades, France presented decolonization as a completed chapter of history. Across much of Africa, however, independence did not end the systems that bound former colonies to Paris. They evolved.

Currencies. Military agreements. Strategic resources. Political networks. Intelligence relationships. Corporate power. Media influence. Elite alliances.

Together, they formed a system that became known as Françafrique.

AFRICA: THE EMPIRE FRANCE REFUSED TO END examines how that system was built, how it survived formal independence, and why a growing number of African nations are now challenging it.

With West Africa at the center of the story, the book follows the struggle across the Sahel, Algeria and North Africa, Central Africa, the Great Lakes, Madagascar, and beyond. It examines coups, military interventions, monetary control, resource extraction, political patronage, information warfare, and the changing relationship between France and a continent increasingly determined to define its own future.

But this is not simply a history of French power in Africa.

It is the story of what happens when the people expected to remain inside a system begin walking away from it.

From the CFA franc and French military bases to uranium, oil, political influence, and the dramatic rupture between Paris and several African governments, AFRICA: THE EMPIRE FRANCE REFUSED TO END traces an empire that survived without formally calling itself one, and the revolt now threatening its foundations.

The age of automatic French dominance in Africa is ending. The question is what comes next.

AFRICA: THE EMPIRE FRANCE REFUSED TO END

Marcus A. Sterling

Published by Darwin Books, an imprint of Sterling Analytics Media.

Available now.