Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da Charles de Gaulle ya koma mulki a matsayin Shugaban Faransa a 1958, Faransa ta riga ta raunana sosai ta yakin duniya na biyu da rikice-rikice a Indochina da Algeria
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya ci gaba da ba da 'yancin kai ga sauran yankuna na Faransa a yankin Saharar Afirka a cikin 1960 a cikin ƙoƙari na kula da alaƙar al'adu da tattalin arziki tare da su da kuma guje wa yaƙe-yaƙe na mulkin mallaka masu tsada. Idan aka kwatanta da mulkin mallaka na Indochina da Algeria na Faransa, canja wurin iko a yankin Saharar ya kasance, a mafi yawan bangarorin, cikin lumana. Duk da haka, de Gaulle yana da sha'awar adana matsayin Faransa a matsayin ikon duniya (ko) kuma a matsayin mai karfi ga tasirin Birtaniya da Amurka a cikin duniya bayan mulkin mallaka. Don haka, ya ga kusanci da tsoffin yankuna na Afirka na Faransa a matsayin dama don haɓaka hoton Faransa a fagen duniya, a matsayin babban iko kuma a matsayin ƙarfin daidaitawa tsakanin Amurka da Tarayyar Soviet a lokacin Yakin Cacar Baki. Amurka ta goyi bayan ci gaba da kasancewar Faransa a Afirka don hana yankin fadawa ƙarƙashin tasirin Soviet. Hakazalika, Burtaniya ba ta da sha'awar Yammacin Afirka, wanda ya bar Faransa a matsayin babban iko a wannan yankin.