Eurafrica or the Europeanization of Françafrique

What Françafrique is to France, Eurafrique is to Europe.

There are historical projects that never die. They silently shape international relations for decades. They change their name, their form, and their rhetoric, but never their purpose. Eurafrica is one of them. It is neither a slogan, nor a treaty, nor an organization, nor a formal alliance, nor a conspiracy theory, nor an ideological fantasy. It is both an architecture and a strategic vision. An architecture of power. A way of organizing the Euro-African space so that wealth flows from South to North, and decision-making flows from North to South.

This strategic vision was born in European planning circles in the aftermath of the Second World War, when Europe realized that it could not remain a world power without controlling, directly or indirectly, African resources, routes, and spaces.

From then on, Eurafrica became not a historical event but a historical process. A slow, deliberate, methodical process, conceived not by politicians, but by strategists, military personnel, economists, engineers, bankers, and planners. Politicians, for their part, merely announce what has already been decided elsewhere.

To understand Eurafrica, one must abandon the moralistic view of history and adopt the geopolitical perspective. From Machiavelli to Meinecke, from Bodin to Botero, and from Hobbes to Richelieu, theorists of “reason of state” have concluded that “necessity knows no law.” In other words, “States have no friends, only interests.” And interests are governed by geography, resources, trade routes, and power dynamics.

After 1945, France and Europe were weakened. The United States dominated, the USSR was advancing, and colonial empires were collapsing. Europe had to find a new form of empire without formal colonies. Eurafrica was that solution: replacing the colonial empire with a functional one.

The idea was so simple:

If Europe unites its industry, technology, finance, and military power, and combines this with raw materials, energy, demographics, and the African space, then the Euro-African whole would become a bloc capable of competing with the United States, Russia, and later China.

In other words, Eurafrica was never a project to develop Africa. Eurafrica was designed to preserve European power.

In any power strategy, there is always a key space. In Eurafrica, this space is neither Paris nor Brussels, nor Addis Ababa nor even Rabat. The decisive space is the Sahara-Sahel-Mediterranean-Atlantic axis.

The key area........

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