Senegal’s first president, Léopold Sédar Senghor, was a strong believer in white supremacy who once wrote that “reason is Helennic; emotion is Negro.” Leon Mba, the first Gabonese president, was such a Francophile that he bequeathed his personal fortune to France in order to finance the construction of a hospital in Paris.
如果忽视非洲“解放者”50年前的心理状态，那么人们或许很难相信法国和前非洲殖民地国家之间的不平衡关系。塞内加尔的首位总统列奥波尔多·赛达尔·桑戈尔坚定地信奉白人至上，他曾经写道“白人的代名词是理智，而黑人的代名词是感情。” 第一位加蓬总统莱昂·姆巴对法国的感情如此深厚，以致于他把个人财产遗赠给法国，用于在巴黎修建医院。