Gabon is not the most conspicuous colony of what used to be France, but it is strategic. It lies, heavily forested, under Africa's western armpit, on the coast of French Equatorial Africa, which extends into the continent so far that it touches Libya and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. South of Gabon lies little Cabinda (part of Angola); then the seaward corridor of the Belgian Congo; then Angola (Portuguese) ; then Southwest Africa and the Union of South Africa, which are British. North and west of Gabon lie the Cameroons (French), Nigeria (British), Dahomey...
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