Quitter ou réformer la zone Franc?

The Franc CFA and the Bank of Central African States: For or against the <i>Status Quo</i>?

“…Guinea Conakry's refusal to join the monetary community is clearly displayed here, and this refusal was based not on economic or financial considerations which could not indisputably be measured at that time, but rather on pride: Guinea did not want to see France interfere in its monetary policy. Some authors believe that "political arguments with a rather "sovereignist" tendency seem to take over scientific reasoning" (Gueye, Mbaye, & Mballa, 2019), however, they do not question the motivations and sources of this tendency (Pigeaud & Sylla, 2022). There is no doubt about the scientific fragility of argu- ments with a sovereignist tendency, however, criticism of the Franc zone and the Franc CFA testify, in reality, to a clear desire to fight against, not only, "the omnipresence" of the former colonial and imperialist power, but also, the injunctions not devoid of any interest of the latter.…”