A Cinderella story gone wrong: The Central African Republic’s state failure

• Silva, Jazmín ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Los Andes
• Localización: Humania del Sur: Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Africanos y Asiáticos, ISSN-e 1856-6812, Vol. 13, Nº. 24, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Japón contemporaneo), págs. 105-117
• Idioma: español
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  • Over the past few decades, the Central African Republic (CAR) has been coinedmany names, among them: Cinderella, impoverished, phantom/failed state. Thislast term, has been used by many scholars, leaders, and members of organizationsinternationally. In the following article we study the case of the CAR’s state failure by tracing its history as a French colony, by taking its former nickname the Cinderella of French Africa as a counter comparison to the fairy tale’s happy ending and by fnally presenting a qualitative analysis to confrm that it has become a failed state.