One example among many more ...
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ordinary pipe under the Cinquantenaire
of "independence" African
by
Alexander Gerbi
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Comic, sad or simply appalling: for each individual to judge ... On 15 July 2010, a seminar on decolonization, organized by ASEAF, held in Paris. What happened there was an example for most of the hundreds of high masses official bloom this year on the same subject, France, Africa and elsewhere on the blue planet ...
C e Thursday night in the Chamber of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France, held a symposium on African independence which This year we celebrate the Jubilee. For six hours, they heard the speakers on different modes decline the classical view of a hard-won independence by South Africa in 1960. Academics, ambassadors, students carefully selected for their ability to think in the nails were hammered as African independence were not granted the point, but pulled out by People eager for independence.
It is significant to note that these trifles, that hide in half a century the true motivations of independence but also and above all, to put Africa and its people fleeced, still hold up the pavement in the year 2010. And for good reason, the challenges of today are the same as yesterday: make maximum business ...
Unsurprisingly, Jacques Toubon and Olivier Stirn, officials of the French state had made the trip for sponsoring this yet another farce. They saw one another and to acquiesce About the speakers ...
After six hours of conference-way, finally came time for questions (in the meantime, all the bigwigs took to their heels). When the microphone came to me in my hands, I made substantially the following remarks:
"For fifty years, it is said, like you did today throughout the conference, that independence was torn by Africans. This lie can hide that independence, which everyone knows they were essentially fictitious, were actually imposed on Africa by the French state, to avoid the mixing of France and organize neocolonialism. At that time, Africans were active course for the total abolition of colonialism. However to achieve this, the overwhelming majority of them felt that the solution was not independence - for the colonial system did not have African territories frameworks necessary to assume independence - but the introduction political equality among all full citizens in the Republic. Indeed, African leaders knew that through democracy, exploitation colonialism in Africa could not continue. This is also for this reason that the metropolitan power denied them equal (Case of Gabon, October 1958), pushed them toward independence dummy (secret dealings of Charles de Gaulle with some African leaders, coupled with premium independence during the winter 1959-1960) and finally drive out to this end, African people's right to self at the cost of a quadruple violation of the Constitution (Act 60-525, May-June 1960 ). From there, neo-colonialism could unfold gradually, with efficiency is known. In this sense we can say that the 'decolonization' was perfectly successful, as it enabled to achieve one of its main objectives: the unfettered exploitation of Africa. Today, in perpetuating the lies of the Fifth Republic blanciste, speakers of the symposium have acted like good little soldiers they claim yet combat system. Moreover, I note that Drs. Toubon and Stirn, this morning, approved all your comments, while the Regional Council of Ile-de-France is responsible for logistics. But if your goal is, as you claim, finding the ways out Africa disaster, so why you relay-lies that allow the same disaster in decades? If the woes of the black continent you grieve as much as you claim, then why do not you say, finally, the truth? "
The room, made up largely of Africans, was widely applauded those comments. As for speakers, of course, they have been careful to respond. Subsequently, during the second round of questions, I had thought to raise the finger, who knows why, I succeeded in getting the word more ...
the fun out of this meeting, a gentleman of a certain age came to congratulate me. I asked him: "You cheered. Why? He replied: "Because what you say is the truth that everyone hides for fifty years." I asked him: "You attend a seminar where one says the opposite for six hours straight, you know that this is false, then why are you never spoke to you insurrection? He smiled and explained: "It's like that, everybody lies, so what do you want, you play the game, do as everyone else." A lady who overheard our conversation threw at me, eye Sparkling: "Sir, you are naive in politics, everyone lies, everyone knows! A few minutes later, another woman approached me and said: "I congratulate you for what you said, but I give you this advice: beware ..." Me wary of what? "I asked. "I tell you, beware," she replied, turning away with a big friendly smile on his lips ...
Finally, I take half an hour to talk to a guy and a girl aged from about twenty-five years. Unlike my other contacts, these young people are convinced that Africa has risen to independence. No argument seems to begin their peaceful beliefs. Fifty years of propaganda triumph in this joyful youth perfectly safe and fooled by him. When the old man who died will be clapping for me sometimes, the truth can finally be buried in good conscience. The disaster, a great lover of lies, has a bright future ...
is where we are in the year 2010. Men and women take cut historical enormities (enamel, moreover, enormous errors) for hours in front of tens, hundreds of people who know they are lying but does not budge. A mixture of mind herding, fear and, for some, for the sake of career and money. For challenging the doxa and French international has as many dangers as blandly used can be very lucrative. Africa and France, though they were to die.
But after all, big money, power and honor, is not it more important?
Alexander Gerbi
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