Contents

• Abstract
• Preface

Part One — The historical background

1. Guinea: An Introduction
• The Geography of Guinea
• The Peoples of Guinea
• Pro-Colonial Guinea
• Contact with the West
• The French Conquest
• The Establishment of French Colonial Rule
• French Policy In the Inter-War Period

Part Two — The road to Independence

2. The Nationalist Revolution In Postwar Africa
• The Spread of Nationalism in French West Africa
• The Bamako Conference: Founding of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain

3. Reform of the French Colonial System
• French West Africa Under Vichy
• The Brazzaville Conference, 1944
• The Constitution of 1946: Establishment of the French Union
• The Loi-Cadre 1956

4. The Evolution of Party Politics in Guinea, 1945-1956
• Political Activity in Guinea: 1945-1956
• The Loi-Cadre and Its Effect on Party Development in Guinea
• The Issue of Federalism

5. Independence
• De Gaulle's Trip to French Black Africa
• De Gaulle In Guinea
• The ReLunion Commune, September 17, 1958
• The Referendum, September 28, 1958
• The Transfer of Authority
• The P.D.G. and the R.D.A.

Part Three — The problems of national sovereignty

6. Decolonization and Reconversion

7. Building a Guinean Nationality
• Ethnic and Cultural Disparity of the Guinean Peoples
• Reduction of the Foulah Opposition
• The Anti-Government Plot (1960)
• The Religious Cleavage
• Recruitment of Women Into the Political Process
• Mobilization of the Youth

8. Reorganization of the National Economy
• Reorientation of National Trade Policy
• Reorganization of National Economic Institutions
• Destruction of the Colonial Commercial Establishment
• Monetary Reform: Establishment of the Guinean franc
• Investissement Humain
• Inauguration of a National Industrialization Program: The Kankan Conference and the Triennial Plan

9. Formulating a Foreign Policy
• Establishment of the Relations with France and the French community
• The Union with Ghana
• Formation of the Union of African States.
• The Commitment to Neutralism: Guinea's Role in the East-West Struggle
• The Communist Plot Against Touré

Part Four — Institutions of national rule

10. The Government
• The National Government
• The Administration of Local Government
• The P.D.G. and the National Government

11. The Parti Démocratique de Guinée
• Internal Party Organization
• Recruitment of Party Members
• Financial Sources and Controls
• Democratic Centralism
• The P.D.G. and Organized Labor
• The Party and the Intellectual
• The P.D.G and the Traditional Chiefs
• The Strategy, Technique and Style of Political Action of the PDG

12. The Educational System
• Education In French Guinea
• Reform of the Educational System
• Countering French Influence
• English and Pan-African Unity
• The Implications of Educational Reform

13. The Army
• The Problem of Returning Veterans
• Creation of the National Army
• The Army an a Cohesive Force in Guinean Society
• The Army and Politics

Part Five — Guinea's Role in the New Africa

14. The Significance of Guinea's Independence

• Bibliography
• Appendixes
• The Constitution of the Republic of Guinea (English text)
• La Constitution de la République de Guinée (Texte français)
• Joint Ghana-Guinea Declaration
• Accords Franco-Guinéens du 7 janvier 1959
• Accomplishments Under Investissement Humain, 1959-1960
• Biographical Sketch of Sékou Touré