Francophone Africa

There is some debate about the appropriate scope of Francophone Africa. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_Africa and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_French_is_an_official_language

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The suggested definition, posed for discussion, is a relatively narrow one:

Francophone Africa is the supraregion consisting of those countries in Africa where French is both a widely-spoken language and an official language, where the country was a former colony of France or Belgium, and where the educational infrastructure is or until recently was organised along "French" lines.

This leads to the following list:

1. Benin
2. Burkina Faso
3. Burundi
4. Cameroon
5. Central African Republic
6. Chad
7. Comoros
8. Côte d'Ivoire
9. Djibouti
10. Equatorial Guinea
11. Gabon
12. Guinea
13. Madagascar
14. Mali
15. Niger
16. Republic of the Congo
17. Senegal
18. Seychelles
19. Togo

Many such lists would include Rwanda - but French and the French approach to organisation is now much less relevant to Rwanda in the light of its recent history.

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