A lot of Africans would strongly disagree that France has no "global influence". There are an awful lot of French troops deployed somewhere in Africa right now, and an awful number of African countries still use a French-controlled currency.
They just keep playing the imperialism game in a very old-fashioned way, with little care for modern sensibilities.
They just keep playing the imperialism game in a very old-fashioned way, with little care for modern sensibilities.