Nicolas Sarkozy Dakar address
On July 27, 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivered a speech at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. The speech, known in France as the Discours de Dakar ''', drew wide criticism for its characterization of Africans as outside of history and progress.
The speech came as part of a foreign trip with then-wife Cécilia, anticipated as an effort to repair French relations with the continent after Sarkozy's predecessor Jacques Chirac had been perceived as supporting authoritarian governments in former French colonies.
