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title: Felix Eboue', Governor General Fighting French Africa - Scholar, Statesman, Soldier
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/owi-alston-felix-eboue-fighting-french-africa-1943/
description: A pencil biographical panel shows a standing portrait of Felix Eboue' in uniform beside a map of Africa with Chad marked 'Fighting French Africa'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Felix Eboue', Governor General Fighting French Africa - Scholar, Statesman, Soldier, 1943 US cartoon: A pencil biographical](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/owi-alston-felix-eboue-fighting-french-africa-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/owi-alston-felix-eboue-fighting-french-africa-1943.jpg)

# Felix Eboue', Governor General Fighting French Africa - Scholar, Statesman, Soldier

A pencil biographical panel shows a standing portrait of Felix Eboue' in uniform beside a map of Africa with Chad marked 'Fighting French Africa', a column of marching troops, a figure holding off two Axis-style opponents, and Eboue' at a desk beneath a swastika-marked hand. Captions credit him with securing manpower for the United Nations and blocking a link-up of Italian forces. The technique is glittering-generalities ('Scholar, Statesman, Soldier'), with selective positive detail in the card-stacking sense.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
UNDER EBOUE', FIGHTING FRENCH AFRICA HAS BECOME AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF MANPOWER FOR THE UNITED NATIONS.

AFRICA

FIGHTING FRENCH AFRICA

HIS COURAGEOUS ACTION IN CHAD PROVINCE PREVENTED A JUNCTION BETWEEN GENERAL GRAZIANI AND HIS LIBYAN ARMY, AND THE DUKE OF AOSTA'S FASCIST ARMY IN ETHIOPIA.

Felix Eboue'
GOVERNOR GENERAL FIGHTING FRENCH AFRICA
SCHOLAR STATESMAN SOLDIER

THE FACT THAT HIS DECISION ENDANGERED THE LIVES OF HIS THREE SONS AND DAUGHTER IN OCCUPIED FRANCE DID NOT DETER HIM FROM CASTING HIS LOT WITH THE UNITED NATIONS

[signature] Alston for OWI
```

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