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EAN : 9782707197795
Shaping : EPUB3
Pages : 292
DRM : Watermark (Tatouage numérique)
OUBANGUI-CHARI, THE COUNTRY THAT DIDN'T EXIST

Collection : Cahiers libres
Release date : 31/08/2017
Jean-Pierre Tuquoi tells us the incredible story of an invented country from the time the name Oubangui-Chari was chosen by the French colonists in 1905, to the Central Africa of today.
Following independence in 1960, there were several coups d’état and the region passed through various hands including those of Bokassa....
Jean-Pierre Tuquoi tells us the incredible story of an invented country from the time the name Oubangui-Chari was chosen by the French colonists in 1905, to the Central Africa of today.
Following independence in 1960, there were several coups d’état and the region passed through various hands including those of Bokassa. The influence of the old colonist remained omnipresent as did the insatiable appetite for mining concessions.
Following lengthy, meticulous research – a mixture of reports, interviews and reading – Jean Pierre Tuquoi tells a surprising story tinged with melancholy; the improbable, stranger than fiction story of Oubangui-Chari.

 
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EAN : 9782707197795
Shaping : EPUB3
Pages : 292
DRM : Watermark (Tatouage numérique)
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