THE NEW FRANCO AFRICAN DALLIANCE

As much as the colonial office in London also took part in looting the motherland of her niceties. It was equally in His Majesty's bingo card to enlighten the people of the dark continent. Who true to their word were disengaged from the advanced strides humanity had made from whence they came.

We hence retain many permanent state buildings, schools, hospitals the lunatic express and many other infrastructures that they built during the Imperial British East Africa era ipso facto. They bit hard off course. But did at least care to blow.

The French on the other hand. Looking at how stuck in the manacles of underdevelopment most francophone countries still are. Came and reigned by assimilating their colonies into the French way. Aiming to shove them deep into French dominion. And robbing them to the core of their indigenous culture, ways of life, language, name it. As if that was not enough, they heavily looted their minerals, artefacts and all available natural privileges. Shipping them home, and unlike the Brits didn't care to develop the colony. Nothing much left to show for it. They came to take, and that they did.

When the era for the struggle for independence in most African colonies came in the 50's. The French in their "wisdom" did not wait to be purged in an armed altercation. What did they do? They made their colonies sign "pact for the continuation of colonialization”. So they exited the territory physically and peacefully but left the whole system intact and under their control. To date, there are a whooping fourteen "independent" African countries that are in the CFA region. To mean they use the "Banque de Paris" printed CFA notes to date. Hence their economic state is still remote controlled from France even as we speak. In the year two thousand twenty-six. Are they really sovereign independent countries? that’s yours for the asking.

In the recent past, Africans predominantly from the francophones. Have been trying to cross the Mediterranean aiming to somehow survive the rough seas stuck in a dingy. The Italian coast guard seeing them off their waters and knowing they will be soon capsizing. Rushes to load them in their ships to safety in Italy exactly ticking every script of the trafficker’s box.

This has led to a diplomatic row between France and Italy because most of these rescued people are from former French colonies. And because the coastal passage of these voyagers desperate for greener pastures across the sea is off Italian waters. It is Italy bearing the brunt of the economic shenanigans that France continues to do in Africa. Overbearing them, continuing to impoverish them and subtly refusing to allowing them total autonomy over their own countries. To the point that they risk it out in the open waters only to be rescued by Italy. And Italy has in the recent past been calling France out a lot for these misdeeds.

This week a whole French delegation is here. In a summit codenamed "African Forward”. Finally, all of a sudden, the French have changed. And have something to offer for a better Africa. The same old Frenchmen. Who speak so seductively, have come to lay their bed for the willing to lay.

High chances y'all will be disenfranchised in many ways by the time the French are done with you. French kissed and milked dry. And then seductively appeased, ma chérie. After most of West Africa has discovered the ploy of this smooth operator. Now she finally has found footing in the East.

What good can come out of Nazareth? We are all eyes and all ears. The language sounds good but we are skeptical.

Africa forward