proper noun/fʁɑ̃.sa.fʁik/
relations between France and its former colonies in Africa; often characterized by users of the term as exploitative, corrupt and/or neocolonialistic
Related: Chinafrique
Blend of France + Afrique. *: 1945 August 15, Jean Piot, L'Aurore: organe de la résistance républicaine: Il nous faudra surtout concentrer notre effort sur l'essentiel — sur ce qui, dans le monde nouveau, doit faire, à l'avantage commun, bloc avec nous: sur ce que j'appellerai la «Françafrique». Above all, we will need to concentrate our effort on what is essential — on what, in the new world, must form a solid bloc with us for the common advantage: on what I will call Françafrique.