A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 by Alice Conklin, looks at the arrogance, folly and sometimes good intentions of French empire builders.Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1995 by Patrick Manning, includes material on developments since 1985, looking at the democratisation movements of the 1980s and 1990s and the Francophone movement.Martin Klein's Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa describes the history of slavery during the 19th and 20th centuries in three former French colonies.