ABSTRACT
The contributions to the historiography of May 1968 have attempted to situate the events that unfolded in France in the more general context of the "1968 years." On the one hand, the focus has been on interpreting France's May in a global perspective, in a more or less comparativist approach. On the other hand, historians have begun to show interest in what was known at the time as the "Third World," which was officially born at the Bandung Conference, and which—in the "West"—was a politically charged term during these years. A multiauthor book endeavored to analyze the movements of the "1968 years" across all of French-speaking Africa and, more marginally, English-speaking Africa. The chapter lies at the intersection of these historiographic trends: integrating France's May into a global perspective, and focusing on uprisings in the Third World. It aims to interpret together May 1968 in France and the 1960s uprisings in French-speaking Africa, in other words, in the former colonies.
