A. D. Chafer

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Divisional Head, European & International Studies

Affiliation

University of Portsmouth, UK

Email

tony.chafer@port.ac.uk

Mailing Address

School of Languages and Area Studies
University of Portsmouth
Park Building
Portsmouth
POI 2DZ
United Kingdom

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: +44-23-9284 6104
fax: +44-23-9284 6040

Research Interests

French decolonisation in West Africa ; contemporary French relations with
and policy towards Black Africa; issues of immigration and identity in
France; Europe and Africa Selected Publications

Teaching Interests

French decolonisation in West Africa ; contemporary French relations with
and policy towards Black Africa; issues of immigration and identity in
France; Europe and Africa Selected Publications

Publications

2002. The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful
Decolonization? Oxford: Berg .

EDITED BOOKS

2002. Promoting the Colonial Empire: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in
France, edited with A. Sackur.
Basingstoke: Palgrave.

1999. French Colonial Empire and the Popular Front, edited with A. Sackur.
Basingstoke: Macmillan.

1996. France: from the Cold War to the New World Order, edited with B.
Jenkins. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2002 "Franco-African relations: no longer so exceptional?" African
Affairs, 101, pp. 343-63.

2001 "French African Policy in Historical Perspective," Journal of
Contemporary African Studies, June.

2001 "Teaching Africans to be French? France's 'civilising mission' and
the establishment of a public education system in French West Africa,
1903-30," Africa, June.

For details of study and research opportunities in the School, visit the
University's web page: http://www.hum.port.ac.uk/slas/main.htm

Keywords

decolonization ; France-Africa relations ; immigration ; identity ; West Africa.