Emmanuel Macron landed in Cameroon last month as the first French president in a decade fighting for his country’s primacy in the region. Accompanied by a formidable entourage of diplomats, businesspeople, and French-Cameroonian cultural figures, he was keen to strike a different note to his predecessors as he launched his new interpretation of Françafrique. Yet, Macron arrived in Yaoundé amid a return of great power politics. In April, Cameroon’s announcement of a military agreement with Russia – at the peak of international condemnation of Russia over its invasion of Ukraine – had sent shockwaves through the Quai d’Orsay in Paris.
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