In the name of an abstract pan-Africanism, any objection to the risks and desirability of a euro-area type of monetary integration is generally dismissed and denounced as a desire to 'balkanise' the continent. Proponents of the eco seem to want to replace French monetary colonialism with monetary arrangements designed to serve the interests of global finance as a priority.

Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa's Last Colonial Curr…, loc. 382