...This chapter discusses how educational reconstruction in the postwar republic, French Africa, and Western Europe became entangled during the war in new and enduring ways. As Free French planners from London to Brazzaville elaborated new agendas for national, colonial, and transnational education...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the interconnectedness of the histories of African decolonization and European integration. World War II was a turning point for education in French Africa and for the colonial administration's stance toward African youth. As the end of the war drew...

...This chapter examines labor movements in postwar French Africa and analyzes the dialectics of decolonization. It describes the transition of the French West African labor movement from a class-centered, internationalist organization from about 1945 to 1955 to a nationalist organization...

...This chapter discusses the loi-cadre of 1956, which was widely recognized as a turning point in the history of French Africa. The loi-cadre was an attempt to reconfigure the place of Africa in the French Union, not an attempt to reconfigure the Union. It was a law, not a constitutional revision...