Italy tells the truth to France but Africa does not listen

By Owei Lakemfa

INOT the ongoing European game of changing accusations over the rescue of African migrants floating in European waters, angry Italy has castigated pious France. Mr. Luigi Di Maio, Italian Deputy Prime Minister, said: "France is one of those countries that, by printing money for 14 African states, prevents their economic development and contributes to the fact that that the refugees leave, then die in the sea or arrive in the sea. our coasts. "

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The Italians refer to the 74-year-old French colonial policy dividing its African colonies into two monetary zones, with eight countries constituting the West African Economic and Monetary Union and six others constituting the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, and imposing Frank, CFA, on them. France prints the CFA franc, sets its value and obliges the 14 countries to deposit at least 50% of their foreign exchange reserves with the Banque de France. In January 2018, these poor African countries had at least 8.9 million euros of their money from the Banque de France, which gives them a fixed interest rate of 0.75%. %, regardless of the level of these rates in France or in the European Union.

What independence can these 14 African countries have when another country owns and controls all their currency? In reality, these countries remain relatively poor countries and can not be compared, economically and politically, with former British colonies such as Nigeria and Ghana. France controls the currency, the economy, politics, the army and the governments of these countries, which makes them quite vulnerable, dependent, poor and without initiative.

The French method of maintaining control of its former African colonies is to align them, including by carrying out mbadacres, destroying or overthrowing governments that show any form of resistance or independence. When Algeria, in 1954, asked for independence, France drowned the country in rivers of blood. In eight years of what would become the Algerian revolution, France slaughtered more than 1.5 million Algerians. The most famous book by Franz Fanon, The wretched of the earth is based on this genocide.

On September 28, 1958, the French organized a referendum on their colonies by giving them options for independence or remaining within the French community. Sékou Touré, the unionist who led the Guinean patriots, wanted independence. He said: "We prefer poverty in freedom to riches in slavery". Thus, countries like Ivory Coast voted 99.99%, Congo 99.38%, Upper Volta (current Burkina Faso) 99.8%, Chad 98.29%, Dahomey (now Benin) with 97.84% and Senegal with 97.55%, only 4.78% voted for the retention in Guinea while the others voted for independence. Angry France has returned to Guinea, destroying files, machines, infrastructure and making every effort to bring Guinea back to stone age.

Félix-Roland Moumié, 34, was at the head of Cameroon's nationalist movement, the Union des populations du Cameroun (UPC), which rejected a "false" independence from France. When colonial France turned against him, he exiled himself to Conakry, Guinea. During a visit to Geneva, Switzerland, he was invited to dinner on 15 October 1960 by a 66-year-old journalist, William Bechtel, whom he had met earlier in July in Accra, Ghana, to discuss the armed struggle of the UPC against French colonialism. It turned out that Bechtel was a murderer of the French secret service, SDECE. He poisoned Moumie with Thallium. Although the Swiss police found traces of the poison on Bechtel, confirming that he had administered it, he was allowed to leave the country.

In 1958, Sylvanus Olympio won the election as Prime Minister of Togo. France imposed 800 million CFA francs on the country as infrastructure costs when it colonized and exploited the country's resources. Olympio, a lawyer, mobilized the Togolese and paid the French extortion in two years. The country became independent on April 27, 1960. In order for Togo to become truly independent, the Olympio Administration is committed to building strong relations with the United States, the United States, the United States, and the United States. Germany and Great Britain. Subsequently, in a suicidal gesture, Olympio decided in 1962 to create the Togolese Central Bank for the issuance of its currency. This meant that Togo was trying to get out of the CFA zone arrangement.

On January 13, 1963, the French organized a coup d'etat with their Togolese legionaries who had just returned from their colonial war in Indochina and Algeria. When the soldiers arrived home, Olympio had only two unarmed policemen as security. He was able to escape in shorts in the neighboring house which was the residence of the American ambbadador. The ambbadador asked President Olympio to stay on the scene. Shortly after, the soldiers, apparently with the permission of the Americans, entered the embbady building and Olympio was executed.

The naked interventions of France in Africa are continuing. After the controversial 2010 elections in Côte d'Ivoire, the French army simply took sides against then President Laurent Gbagbo. The truth that the French will not reveal is that Gbagbo had begun to take independent positions, notably by reforming the banking system, which could lead to an exit from the CFA.

The colonialists also used Africa for experiments to which they will not reveal their own people. On February 13, 1960, France carries out its first nuclear test. the equivalent of four bombs of Hiroshima, in Reganne, on the Tanezrouft track, in Algeria, in the Sahara desert. Radiation has spread throughout West Africa, resulting in birth defects and cancer. The French Ministry of Defense said that 27,000 Algerians were suffering the effects of radiation, while independent observers had said that 60,000 people would suffer. More than 57 years later, Algerians are still suffering the effects of four atomic bombs tested by the French over a two-year period.

France is just the typical colonial master who has visited untold atrocities on settlements, particularly in Africa. How does the colonial master, whose main interest is to plunder, protect the interests of the colonized? His primary interest is to protect his own interests, even if he seriously harms those of others. A wise African saying teaches that if you and your child are on fire, first extinguish the fire that burns you before attempting to extinguish it. In aviation, you have been told that in case of emergency, oxygen masks would fall from the panels above your head. it is advisable to repair your mask before helping your child or other people.

Any African who claims that the colonizer will first protect the interests of his former colony before his own needs an urgent psychiatric evaluation. For the victims of colonialism, the task is to unite and present a common front to defeat neo-colonialism. The union and the solidarity are our strength.

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