AWAKENING OF AFRICAN CONSCIOUSNESS READ TO THE END When Sekou Toure triggers the abandonment of France.
three thousand French left the country, taking all their property and destroying everything that could not be moved: schools, nurseries, public administration buildings were destroyed, cars, books, medicines, instruments of the research institute, thetractors were run over and sabotaged; horses and cows on farms were killed, and stored food was burned or poisoned.
The purpose of this outrageous act was, of course, to send a clear message to all the other colonies about the consequences of rejecting France.
the fact is that little by little fear took hold of the African elites, and after these events no other country ever found the courage to follow the example of Sékou Touré, whose slogan was “We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery ”.
for the newly independent countries it was necessary to find compromises with France. Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of the Republic of Togo, a small country in West Africa, found a solution that would calm the French:
not wanting to continue to undergo French domination, he refused to sign the colonial pact proposed by De Gaule, but in return agreed to pay an annual debt to France for the so-called benefits obtained during French colonization.
these were the only conditions for France not to destroy the country before leaving. However, the amount estimated by France was so large that the repayment of the so-called "colonial debt" was close to 40% of the country's budget in 1963.
therefore, the financial situation of newly independent Togo was very unstable, and in order to get out of this situation, Olympio decided to withdraw from the monetary system set up by colonial France the FCFA (franc of the French colonies of Africa), and created the country's currency.
on January 13, 1963, three days after he started printing the new banknotes, a squad of soldiers (backed by France) seized and killed the first elected president of independent Africa: Olympio was executed by an ex French legionary, army sergeant Etienne Gnassingbéwho, by the way, received at that time a bonus of 612 dollars from the local French embassy for the success of his mission.
Olympio's dream was to build an independent and self-sufficient country. But the idea did not correspond to French wishes.
on June 30, 1962, Modibo Keita, the first president of the Republic of Mali, also decided to withdraw from the FCFA monetary system (imposed on 12 newly independent African countries).
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indeed, for the Malian president, who leaned more towards a socialist economy, it was clear that the colonization which continued with this pact with France, became a trap, a burden for the development of the country.
on November 19, 1968, like Olympio, Keita was the victim of a coup d'état led by another former French foreign legionnaire, Lieutenant Moussa Traoré.
in fact, during this turbulent period when Africa was struggling to free itself from the yoke of European colonization, France will repeatedly use mercenaries formerly affiliated with the foreign legion to carry out punch operations against the newly elected presidents:
on January 1, 1966, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, a former French legionary, carried out a coup against David Dacko, the first president of the Central African Republic.
on January 3, 1966, Maurice Yaméogo, the first president of the Republic of Upper Volta, now known as Burkina Faso, was the victim of a blow struck by Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana, a former French legionary who fought with French troops in Indonesia and Algeria against these countriesindependenceon October 26, 1972 Mathieu Kérékou who was a security guard to President Hubert Maga, the first president of the Republic of Benin, carried out a coup against the president, after attending French military schools from 1968 to 1970.
in fact, in the last 50 years, a total of 67 coups d'état that have occurred in 26 countries in Africa, 16 of these countries are former French colonies, which means that 61% of coups d'état in Africa were initiated in former French colonies.
in March 2008, former French President Jacques Chirac said:
"Without Africa, France will slide down to the rank of twenty-third power [in the world]"
Jacques Chirac's predecessor François Mitterrand had already prophesied in 1957 that: "Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century"
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As I write this article, 14 African countries are forced by France, through the colonial pact, to put 85% of their reserves in the central bank of France under the control of the French finance ministry. So far, in 2014, Togo and about 13 other African countries still have to pay colonial debt to France. African leaders who refuse are killed or victims of a coup. those who obey are supported and rewarded by France with lavish lifestyle, while their populations endure misery and despair.
such an evil system, is denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to do without this colonial system which offers it a cash flow of about 500 billion dollars from Africa, and this by year.
in 1958, afraid of the consequences of his choice of independence from France, Léopold Sédar Senghor declared: "The choice of the Senegalese people is independence, they want it to take place only in friendship with France, not in dispute. “
from then on France accepted that an "independence on paper" for its colonies, but signed in parallel of the "cooperation agreements", specifying the nature of their relations with France, in particular the attachments towards the currency (the Franc), the French education system, themilitary agreements and trade preferences.Here are the 11 main components of the continuation of the Colonization Pact since the 1950s:
1. Colonial debt for the benefits of French colonization
newly "independent" countries must pay for the infrastructure built by France in the country during colonization.
I have yet to find the details on the amounts, the assessment of colonial benefits and the payment terms imposed on African countries, but we are working on it (help us with information).
2. Automatic confiscation of national reserves
African countries must deposit their national currency reserves in France at the central bank.
.France has maintained national reserves of fourteen African countries since 1961: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Guinea equatorial and Gabon.
The monetary policy governing such a diversified grouping of countries is simple because it is managed by the French Treasury, without referring it to central fiscal authorities such as UEMOA or CEMAC. under the terms of the agreement that was put in place by the central bank of the CFA, each central bank of each African country is obliged to keep at least 65% of its foreign exchange reserves in an "operations account" kept at the French Treasury, as well as another 20% to cover liabilitiesfinancial.
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The CFA central banks also impose a ceiling on the credit granted to each member country at the equivalent of 20% of the public revenues of that country over the previous year. although the BEAC and the BCEAO have an overdraft facility with the French Treasury, drafts on overdraft facilities are subject to the consent of the French Treasury. the last word is that of the French Treasury which has invested the foreign reserves of African countries in its own name on the Paris Stock Exchange.
In short, more than 80% of the foreign exchange reserves of these African countries are deposited in "operations accounts" controlled by the French Treasury. the two CFA banks are African in name, but do not have their own monetary policy. The countries themselves do not know, are not informed, to what extent the foreign exchange reserve held by the French Treasury belongs to them as a group or individually.
the gains from the investment of these French treasury funds are supposed to be added to the foreign exchange reserve, but there is no accounting passed to banks or countries, nor the details of these changes. "Only a select group of senior French Treasury officials know the amounts in the" transaction accounts "where these funds are invested; if there is a profit on these investments, they are prohibited from disclosing this information to CFA banks or bankscentral African states. ”Writes Dr Gary K.busch
It is estimated that France manages nearly 500 billion African money in its treasury, and does nothing to shed some light on this dark side of the old empire.
The end remains: African countries do not have access to this money.
France allows them to access only 15% of their money per year. If they need more, African countries must borrow, at commercial rates, on the 65% of their money held in the French treasury.
to make matters more tragic, France places a cap on the amount of money countries can borrow from the reserve. The ceiling is set at 20% of their government revenue for the previous year. if countries need to borrow more than 20% of their own money, France has a veto.
Former French President Jacques Chirac recently spoke about money from African countries in banks in France.
3. priority right on any raw or natural resource discovered in the country
France has priority when it comes to purchasing all the natural resources in the land of its former colonies. It is only if this is refused that African countries are allowed to seek other partners.
4. Priority to French interests and companies in public procurement and public construction
in the award of public contracts, French companies must be considered first, and only afterwards foreign contracts are considered. The fact that African countries might get a better financial offer elsewhere is not taken into account.
as a result, in most of the former French colonies, all the biggest companies and economic players are in the hands of French expatriates. in the Ivory Coast, for example, French companies own and control all major public services - water, electricity, telephone, transport, ports and the big banks. Ditto in trade, construction and agriculture.
example: nearly 3,000 billion CFA francs as profits repatriated by the French Ivory Coast Water Company only one year.
Ultimately, as I wrote in a previous article, Africans now live on a continent owned by Europeans!
5. exclusive right to supply military equipment and train military officers of countries
.thanks to a sophisticated system of scholarships, grants, and the "defense agreements" attached to the colonial pact, Africans must send their senior officers for training to France or to French military infrastructures.
the situation on the continent is such that France has trained and fed hundreds, if not thousands, of traitors. They are dormant until needed, and activated when needed for a coup or some other purpose!
6. right for France to pre-deploy troops and intervene militarily in the country to defend its interests
Under the name "Defense Agreements" attached to the colonial pact. France has the right to intervene militarily in African countries, and also to station troops permanently in military bases and installations, entirely managed by the French.
French military bases in Africa
when President Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d'Ivoire tried to end French exploitation of the country, France staged a coup. during the long process to oust Gbagbo from power, French tanks, helicopter gunships and special forces intervened directly into the conflict, shooting at civilians and killing many of them.
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to add insult to injury, France estimates that the French business community then lost several million dollars in the scramble to leave Abidjan in 2006 (where the French army massacred 65 unarmed civilians and injured 1200 others.)
following the success of the coup by France, and the transfer of power to Alassane Ouattara, France asked the Ouattara government to pay compensation to the French business community for losses during the civil war.
in fact, the Ouattara government paid them double what they said they lost when they left.
7. Obligation to make French the official language of the country and the language for education
Yes sir. You must speak French, the language of Molière! the French language and an organization for the dissemination of culture has been created. Called "Francophonie" which brings together several branches and affiliated organizations all controlled by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.
as demonstrated in this article, if French is the only language you speak, you would have access to less than 4% of humanity's knowledge and ideas. It’s very limiting.
8. Obligation to use the money of colonial France the FCFA
it is the real cash cow for France, such an evil system, is denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to do without this colonial system which offers it a treasury of around 500 billion dollars from Africa per year.
During the introduction of the euro currency in Europe, other European countries discovered the French operating system. Many, especially the Nordic countries, were dismayed and suggested that France get rid of the system, but to no avail.
9. obligation to send the annual balance and reserve report to France
Without the report, no money. .In any case, the secretariat of the central banks of the ex-colonies, and the secretariat of the bi-annual meeting of the finance ministers of the ex-colonies are provided by France central bank / Treasury.
10. renunciation of entering into a military alliance with any other country, unless authorized by France
African countries in general are those with the fewest interstate military alliances. Most countries only have military alliances with their ex-colonizers! (funny, but you can't do better!).
In cases where they would like another alliance, France is careful not to do so.
11. Obligation to ally with France in a situation of war or global crisis
France has been gravely addicted to the looting and exploitation of Africa since the days of slavery. Then there is this complete lack of creativity and imagination of the French elite to think beyond the past and tradition.
it is up to us to liberate Africa, without asking permission, because I still cannot understand, for example, how 450 French soldiers in Ivory Coast could control a population of 20 million people?
the first reaction of people upon learning of the existence of the French colonial tax is often a question: "Until when?"
For historical comparison, France made Haiti pay the modern equivalent of $ 21 billion from 1804 to 1947 (nearly a century and a half) for the losses caused to French slave traders following the abolition from slavery and the liberation of Haitian slaves.
African countries have been paying colonial tax for the past 50 years! How long do Africans have to wait to put an end to this great organized theft and slavery organized for several centuries.
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