title: France will no longer dictate to Africans, Macron says
text: OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday sought to make a clean break from his predecessors saying that he came from a generation that would not tell Africans what to do and would focus his efforts on bridging ties between Africa and Europe.   I am from a generation that doesn t come to tell Africans what to do,  Macron said during a speech to university students in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou.  I am from a generation for whom Nelson Mandela s victory is one of the best political memories.  Macron is on a three-day visit to West Africa that includes an EU-Africa summit in Ivory Coast s capital Abidjan.   I will not stand by those who say the African continent is one of crises and misery. I will be alongside those who believe that Africa is neither a lost continent or one that needs to be saved.  