# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-xavier-verschave
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:28:10.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-xavier-verschave"
name: "François-Xavier Verschave"
slug: "francois-xavier-verschave"
description: "François-Xavier Verschave was a French economist and activist primarily known as one of the founders of the French NGO Survie (\"Survival\") and as coiner of the term Françafrique, an expression for France's neocolonialism, a specific type of neocolonialism imposed by France over its former colonies in Africa."
tagline: "French historian-economist (1945-2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Merci-FXV.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-10-28"
deathDate: "2005-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فرانسوا كسافير فرشاف"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump