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Why did the people of Guinea vote overwhelmingly to reject the constitution of the French Fifth Republic and to declare independence in the 1958 referendum, while all the other French colonies in Africa overwhelming chose the opposite?

by /u/fiahhu in /r/AskHistorians

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