The Franco-Cameroonian author Mongo Beti, in his reinterpretation of the concept “francophone” evoked African naivety and fragility at the time of independence, two elements the former colonizer took advantage of. In our article, we start from this a priori and its a posteriori in a contemporary critical analysis of the controversial role of the French language as (colonial and neocolonial) means of conquest. In the works by Mongo Beti, some of these a posteriori called forth a dualistic pattern: on the one hand, the deculturation born of the phenomenon of diglossia, and on the other hand, the practical reasons for adopting French. Are Africans longing to speak “Parisian” French, unconsciously victims of a complex of inferiority? Has francophonie viciously gained from the colonization of Africa? Our article aims at deconstructing this crippling dimension of the term “francophone” through critical textual analysis of the African reality as presented by Beti.