Regards ivoiriens, nigériens et béninois sur le français. Eléments pour une typologie des francophonies en Afrique de l’Ouest

This article has two objectives. On the one hand, we want to describe three different situations in relation to the French language and culture (Niger, Ivory Coast, Benin) by collecting the discourses of young people who did not experience the period of colonization. Our goal is to approach their representations of French. The second point of our research consists in proposing a hermeneutic vision of the Francophonie which also integrates the description of attitudes, positive or negative, towards French and all that this language can convey.