Foreign policy is going to play a lot in the upcoming
presidential race. And the candidates cannot and should not be allowed to be
evasive about the rogue heads of state supported in foreign countries by the big
powers, dictators that impoverish and oppress and suppress their people.
The current geopolitical turmoil in the world and efforts by the major powers to determine geopolitical developments ignores or pays little interest to Africa, which is going to be the major flashpoint in the near future as China creeps in even further and becomes entrenched. The African people who relate more with the West, but are being constrained to operate under dictatorships, authoritarianism and totalitarianism through puppets supported by foreign powers, China's limited democracy is a comfortable partner for many of Africa's ruling anti-democratic classes.
So it is about time the United States starts advising France to let go of its century old stranglehold over francophone African countries where France put in place retrogressive puppets whose connivance and misrule are impoverishing the citizens of these African countries. Cameroon being a good example where it was the base that following the defeat and occupation of France in 1940 by Nazi Germany, the Free France led by De Gaulle who had escaped to the UK, set Cameroon up as its base under Phillipe Leclerc, recruited locals who formed the core of the Free French Forces that went on to liberate French Equatorial Africa, Koufra in Libya, stalled the Germany Army in Bir Hakeim in North Africa, liberated Paris and the rest of France. These Cameroonian fighters returned home after the war, formed a political party (Union of the Populations of the Cameroons) and asked for reunification of British Cameroons and French Cameroun, and independence , garnering 80% of popular support and 90% of the intellectuals, but France banned the party in 1955, calling it communist, killed all its leaders (Um Nyobe 1958, Felix Moumie 1960 in Geneva, Ossende Afana, Ernest Ouandie etc.) and installed a 6th grader Ahmadou Ahidjo, as head of Cameroun and granted him power in 1960, setting up a corrupt system which the guy was a custodian of until 1982 when he was told to hand power to his prime minister Paul Biya who has been in power since. These French-imposed systems abound in Africa, and need to be dismantled because its opaqueness leaves it vulnerable to opaque interest, one of which is Chinese economic plans in Africa and some foreign corporations and individuals.
The current geopolitical turmoil in the world and efforts by the major powers to determine geopolitical developments ignores or pays little interest to Africa, which is going to be the major flashpoint in the near future as China creeps in even further and becomes entrenched. The African people who relate more with the West, but are being constrained to operate under dictatorships, authoritarianism and totalitarianism through puppets supported by foreign powers, China's limited democracy is a comfortable partner for many of Africa's ruling anti-democratic classes.
So it is about time the United States starts advising France to let go of its century old stranglehold over francophone African countries where France put in place retrogressive puppets whose connivance and misrule are impoverishing the citizens of these African countries. Cameroon being a good example where it was the base that following the defeat and occupation of France in 1940 by Nazi Germany, the Free France led by De Gaulle who had escaped to the UK, set Cameroon up as its base under Phillipe Leclerc, recruited locals who formed the core of the Free French Forces that went on to liberate French Equatorial Africa, Koufra in Libya, stalled the Germany Army in Bir Hakeim in North Africa, liberated Paris and the rest of France. These Cameroonian fighters returned home after the war, formed a political party (Union of the Populations of the Cameroons) and asked for reunification of British Cameroons and French Cameroun, and independence , garnering 80% of popular support and 90% of the intellectuals, but France banned the party in 1955, calling it communist, killed all its leaders (Um Nyobe 1958, Felix Moumie 1960 in Geneva, Ossende Afana, Ernest Ouandie etc.) and installed a 6th grader Ahmadou Ahidjo, as head of Cameroun and granted him power in 1960, setting up a corrupt system which the guy was a custodian of until 1982 when he was told to hand power to his prime minister Paul Biya who has been in power since. These French-imposed systems abound in Africa, and need to be dismantled because its opaqueness leaves it vulnerable to opaque interest, one of which is Chinese economic plans in Africa and some foreign corporations and individuals.
There is a short window for genuine democratic change in
countries like Cameroon and Francophone African countries in particular before they before failed states with no sense of
direction, a complete disconnect between the custodians of the system and the people, as well as a
complete institutionalization of mediocracy.
By Janvier Tchouteu
By Janvier Tchouteu
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