Enumerates the French language TV programs currently available in Nigeria and describes the difficulties hampering a nationwide development of educational TV programs in French. Offers suggestions to overcome these difficulties, describes the French language courses already on the air, and outlines plans for new programs. (MES)

This article examines the controversy over the alleged sexism of "French in Action" (1987, 1994) within the context of key differences between French and American feminist thought. Read within a French cultural context, this text can be more accurately perceived as a postmodernist, feminist critique of Hollywood's heterosexual romance…