The classical approach to sovereignty insufficiently investigates the singular way African political spaces are organized. Indeed, focusing on concepts such as "a people" or "nations" can lead to a kind of "constitutional myopia," whereas the lack of any genuine consideration of the human composition of local African governments fuels many political or post-election conflicts. Consequently, to understand and construct political regimes and societies having a complex human substrate, such as those in Francophone Africa, another approach is worth exploring: using the concept of "population"–?one more often used in demographic studies.