The Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko condemned Macron's remarks as "entirely incorrect", while the Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah denounced a "contemptuous attitude".
They both reacted on Monday night to the French President's speech to his foreign Ambassadors.
The annual conference of ambassadors is held this year on 6 and 7 January in Paris.
President Emmanuel Macron stated that the announced departure of French military bases had been negotiated between the African countries that decided on it and France, and claimed that it was purely for convenience and politeness that France allowed these African countries to make the announcement first.
Chad's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abderaman Koulamallah, expressed his disapproval of the French president's remarks in a statement read on national television.
"The government of the Republic of Chad expresses its deep concern following recent comments by the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, which reflect a disdainful attitude towards Africa and Africans," Koulamallah said.
Chad’s Foreign Minister also stated that in 60 years of presence in Chad, French contributions have often been "limited to serving their own strategic interests, without any genuine lasting impact on the development of the Chadian people.”
He concluded by urging Macron to focus on “addressing the issues concerning the French people.”
Sonko strongly dismissed Macron's claims as well, on Monday night.
"I must emphasise that, in the case of Senegal, this assertion is entirely incorrect," he wrote on social media.
"No discussion or negotiation has taken place to date, and the decision made by Senegal stems solely from its own will, as a free, independent, and sovereign country."
Both Chad and Senegal repeated that their decisions to ask French troops to leave were unilateral.
Lack of gratitude?
Macron also criticised the "ingratitude" of certain leaders on the African continent—suggesting hey would not be heading sovereign nations today if the French army had not been deployed there, referring most probably to Mali and Niger, plagued with islamist violence for over a decade.
He declared that "no African country would be sovereign today if France had not intervened," Sonko underlined in his statement.
"Let us observe that France neither has the capacity nor the legitimacy to ensure Africa’s security and sovereignty," Sonko replied.
"On the contrary, it has often contributed to destabilising certain African countries, such as Libya, with disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Sahel."
A staunch critic of the French presence in his country before coming to power last year, Sonko insisted on reminding President Macron that "if African soldiers—sometimes forcibly conscripted, mistreated, and ultimately betrayed—had not been deployed during the Second World War to defend France, the country might still be German today."
In his own response to Macron's speech, Koulamallah also highlighted the "crucial role" played by Africa and Chad "in the liberation of France during the two world wars."
The minister emphasised that their "immense sacrifices" had been "minimised" without receiving a "meaningful expression of gratitude."
He went on to call on "French leaders to learn to respect the African people and to acknowledge the value of their sacrifices."
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, on 8 May 1945, in which African troops from the former French empire were heavily involved and played a key role in France's resistance to nazism.
The African soldiers were however often dismissed with no pension or excluded from celebrations.
