Macron seeks to rejuvenate relationship with Africa at revamped summit

French President Emmanuel Macron has invited hundreds of young people hailing from African « civil society » to attend an unprecedented Africa-France summit in the southern French city of Montpellier on Friday. France has framed the gathering as one meant to « provide a new foundation » for the relationship, but some African intellectuals have qualified the purported break with the past as little more than window dressing.