This is a component 7 of an 8-part sequence
The photos aren’t the type we’re accustomed to seeing at an Africa-France summit: a French head of state greeted in a white-hot room that includes spectacular breakdance performances in opposition to a backdrop of hip-hop music and a substantial buzz generated by the hearsay of the arrival of a former basketball star, Tony Parker. For the primary time, on 8 October, the “new Africa-France summit” organised in Montpellier was held with out the normal ballet of planes and limousines of African heads of state, who had merely not been invited.