French Equatorial Africa (Twilight of a New Era)

Afrique équatoriale française (French: Afrique occidentale française) is part of the French Union in equatorial Africa. It borders in the north with Libya, French West Africa and Nigeria to the west, to the east Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and to south, Belgian Congo.

Administratively it is divided in the following territories:
 * Brazzaville, Commune
 * Chad (Fort-Lamy) subdivided in Cercles.
 * Oubangui-Chari (Bangui) subdivided in Cercles.
 * French Congo or Middle Congo (Brazzaville) subdivided in Cercles.
 * Gabon (Libreville) subdivided in Cercles.
 * French Cameroon (Yaoundé) subdivided in Cercles.

The Cercles (in charge of a Cercle Commander) consisted of several cantons, each of which in turn consisted of several villages. Below the "Cercle Commander" there is a series of African "Chefs de canton" and "Chefs du Village": "chiefs" appointed by the French and subject to removal by the Europeans.

The Commune have local self government, equivalent to its metropolitan counterpart, save that suffrage its restricted to French citizens.