Index — African Francophone Sovereignty
Two scores. Never one.
12 CFA-franc states. A sourced, anchored, revisable measure of their distance from the colonial orbit — from 1960 to today.
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Colors indicate monetary zone (institutional fact), not a score. No per-country data is rendered.
The gap
1960 → today
The flag raised in 1960 does not measure substantive sovereignty. The gap between independence on paper and real autonomy is what this index makes legible — year by year, event by event, source by source.
Three commitments
What this index does — and what it refuses to do.
Option 1 — France and the CFA, nothing else
The index measures distance from the colonial orbit (France) and the CFA franc, and nothing else. It does not claim to be a global sovereignty ranking.
Read 02Capture, not democracy
Axis B measures capture — who decides, in practice — not distance from a Western democratic template. No Freedom House. No V-Dem.
Read 03Anchored, not relative
Every indicator is anchored to published, frozen thresholds. A country's score moves only when its own data moves — never because a neighbor changed.
ReadFeel the gap
A preview of the mechanism, on two placeholder countries. No real data shown.
Auditable, open, forkable
Data under CC-BY-4.0, code under MIT. The repository is the source of truth.
Every datapoint carries a resolvable source and a publication date. No fabrication. No interpolation.
The tagging system
- FACT
- INTERPRETATION
- CONTESTED
- HARD
- INTERP.