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Dakar — the Mali Federation
Jun–Aug 1960 — Senegal and French Sudan try independence as a single federation, then split within two months into Senegal and Mali. The dream of larger unions dies early, and often.
This is one scene of Chapter 5 — The Year of Africa in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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