Bola A. Akinterinwa Francophone Africa’s scramble for self-reliant independence and sovereignty is a big surprise to France as a people, in general, and as a government, in particular. For the French, it is ‘incroyable mais vrai’, that is, ‘unbelievable but true.’ The French cannot easily believe that their former colonized people can declare them personae non grata in their countries. European scramble for Africa, which culminated into the 1884 and 1885 Berlin Conferences and agreements, is