Correction: An earlier edition of this story incorrectly spelled the name of a former French colony, and listed a country that is not in Africa. The French are a proud bunch, especially when it comes ...

Emmanuel Macron is "a great lover" of traditional French, the language of Molière, said Die Welt (Berlin). He often sprinkles his conversation with quaint terms like croquignolesque (ridiculous) or ...

Due to its colonial past with France, Togo adopted French as its official language in 1960, a fact enshrined in Article 3 of the country's constitution. But what place does French now have in Togo’s ...

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