D. Dugard

Mechanical Engineer.

[D. Dugard @DONGUIMATSA]

@Rdc_News5 Ça vient peut être du même lot

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[Leo Dasilva @SirLeoBDasilva]

It is what you want to see on the internet that you will see.
I find it funny that people have many happily married family members to learn from, are born into loving families and their idea about marriage will still come from people using it for content to pay their rent.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

First, this is a fundamentally flawed analogy. You cannot logically compare Ethiopia, a landlocked country that bleeds billions of dollars annually on exorbitant port fees just to engage in basic international trade, to Vietnam, a country that possesses a massive coastline directly on the South China Sea and sits right in the strategic manufacturing backyard of China.

Yes, it is a historical fact that Ethiopia was not formally colonized, but this does not mean they were living in peace and harmony.
Mussolini and his fascist Italian army brutally occupied Ethiopia, deploying chemical weapons and mustard gas against civilians. Even though the brave people of Ethiopia were able to regain their sovereignty, they suffered devastating human and infrastructural losses in the process. But the economic strangulation did not end there. All of Ethiopia's neighboring countries were under brutal European colonial occupation. These colonial powers intentionally blockaded Ethiopia, forcing the country into absolute geopolitical isolation and completely cutting it off from global trade routes. And even when direct colonialism supposedly ended in the region, Ethiopia did not see peace. Foreign powers, including Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations, heavily funded and armed Eritrea to wage a brutal, draining civil war against Ethiopia that lasted for thirty years, systematically bleeding their economy dry.

And yes, Vietnam suffered horrifically from a brutal American war, but they had the massive, undeniable support of the Eastern bloc to bounce back. After the Vietnam War, China and the Soviet Union aggressively transferred heavy technology to Vietnam. They helped modernize their seaports, integrated their manufacturing grids into Asian supply chains, built vital rail networks, and shared critical industrial blueprints. This does not take away the credit due to the highly disciplined leadership structure of the Vietnamese state and their incredibly industrious population, but they absolutely received massive geopolitical help.

Even China did not build its empire from scratch. In the 1950s, the Soviets transferred entire industrial bases, heavy metallurgical technology, aerospace engineering, and foundational manufacturing plants directly to Beijing. And even after Mao Zedong passed away,Deng Xiaoping basically opened the Chinese market to the West, US tech giants poured their equipment, patents, and capital into the country. They set up massive semiconductor supply chains, built state of the art mega factories, transferred highly guarded intellectual property, and injected hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign direct investment to exploit cheap labor. But when it comes to Africa, Western commentators heap the blame entirely upon us, acting as if they brought this high level technology and capital to our shores and we simply refused to integrate it into our development.

Let us be very clear. Nobody is blaming 19th century colonialism alone for the current poverty level in Africa. I have never seen any serious Pan African scholar who claims Africa is poor today solely due to historical colonialism. I am also not here on this platform to fight against the ghost of the past, as that would be a silly and unproductive distraction.

What we are fiercely fighting against today is active, ruthless neo colonialism.

The predatory terms and conditions buried in the World Trade Organisation manuals for global trade make it legally and economically impossible for any African nation to build wealth from processing its own raw materials. We are forced, through a rigged system of tariff escalation, to export our resources raw and untouched to sustain European industries. If an African country exports raw cocoa or crude oil, the tariffs are zero, but the exact moment they try to export processed chocolate or refined petroleum, they are hit with crushing import taxes. Furthermore, imperial financial institutions like the IMF and the World Bank constantly stampede African growth by forcing deadly Structural Adjustment Programs, mandating the suicidal privatization of state owned power grids, forcing the endless devaluation of national currencies, and strictly banning African governments from subsidizing their own local farmers while Western farmers receive billions in state welfare.

There is absolutely no genuine technology transfer to African nations. There is no room for us to trade as equals in the global market. There is no bilateral loan or foreign aid available to Africans that does not demand total economic capitulation, the absolute surrender of our national sovereignty, and the complete deregulation of our banking sectors. And in spite of all these crushing economic blockades, we still have to spend our limited national budgets and sacrifice the blood of our military personnel fighting off foreign backed rebels. These proxy militias stage relentless guerrilla warfare on our soil for one singular purpose, which is to violently clear our resource rich fields so that foreign conglomerates can feast on our gold, lithium, cobalt, and uranium undisturbed.

Now Magatte, I know that you are deeply invested in a self hating narrative, trying incredibly hard to please your white corporate masters overseas by blaming the victims of imperialism. But the next time you decide to compare two nations operating on completely different continents and under vastly different geopolitical realities, do not use just one stupid variable as your entire metric.

[Kashyap Sriram @kashyap286]

Firstly, Ethiopia is under US sanctions while Vietnam is not. And speaking of former French colonies, Haiti was the first to get independence (1804) and is still one of the poorest countries in the world because of the debt they had to take on to gain independence (it took them until 1947 to fully repay it!). Whereas, New Caledonia is still a French colony and is neither rich nor poor.

"If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor..."

This line completely ignores the European powers' (and US) post-colonial control over Africa. Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the DRC, was tortured and killed by Belgium and the US for being a nationalist. His body was dissolved in acid so he wouldn't become a martyr. His legacy is largely unknown even within the continent. Several other such "lessons" were meted out. Google Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) and Sylvanus Olympio (Togo).

Once you set the example, you gain obedience. The VietCong, on the other hand, didn't surrender even though 3 million Vietnamese died during the war, and several thousand more continue to die to this day (!) from Agent Orange exposure.

As for former French colonies in Africa, France still controls their currency and holds their central bank reserves in France. As Rothschild purportedly said, "permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

Third, the borders in Africa were drawn in such a way that conflict was inevitable. At the Berlin Conference in 1884-85, the European powers simply carved up the continent by drawing straight line borders. African leaders were conspicuous only by their absence at this historic event which shaped the next century. This is why Cameroon, a French-speaking country, has a minority English-speaking territory, ensuring it remains destabilized. Likewise for West Asia/the Middle East, where the Sykes-Picot legacy lives on.

@magattew conflates formal colonial rule with colonial control. Vietnam managed to fully kick out both France and the US, reunified the North and the South, and kept its sovereignty. All African leaders who attempted the same have been systematically eliminated (see Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's divisive leader, for a recent example), ensuring Africa forever bears the open wounds of its colonial legacy.

But Ms. Wade is right on one thing: Vietnam owes its prosperity to overcoming colonial rule. Maybe Africa can become prosperous if Africans do the same.

[D. Dugard @DONGUIMATSA]

@hell_line0 No more army for him, please.
To defend who ?

[D. Dugard @DONGUIMATSA]

@yvetta237 Il peut aussi mettre le riz de côté et manger le poulet avec toi ?

[D. Dugard @DONGUIMATSA]

@MelissaFifen La dot et le mariage sont intervenus à quel moment de l'histoire ?

[D. Dugard @DONGUIMATSA]

@martialk237 Courageux en hauteur comme en largeur.

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@BraunShuga__ Avec un chargeur dans l'autre main en lieu et place du biberon

[vicky Dame_Unique❤️ @VictorineAndeng]

La petite JOYCE NAWAL a été victime d'un VI--ol à son établissement, un VIO-- I a double penetration (Vaginale et anale), l'établissement GLOIRE OLYMPIQUE DE ODZA à Yaoundé. Et apparemment c'est le 3e cas de viol dans cet établissement. 😭je sais pas ce qui arrive aux camerounais

[D. Dugard @DONGUIMATSA]

@RFI Les rebelles se plaignent du type d'arme utilisé pour les combattre ?

[D. Dugard @DONGUIMATSA]

@BerthierAce Ou était la police municipale ?
C'est inconcevable.

[Albert Ze, PhD🇨🇲🇭🇹 @albertleanne]

Recrutement dans les universités au Cameroun: Le jour où mon âge est devenu un délit académique.

Extrait de l’Emission En Promenade avec..

[D. Dugard @DONGUIMATSA]

@rockeasyy @FabienEsso Elle n'a pas donné plus de détails lors de la conférence ?

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@WAKEUP33 @Laetitiandawa L'urinoir peut ne pas être à sa taille, c'est ce que j'ai constaté dans certains lieux

[D. Dugard @DONGUIMATSA]

@DrFurah Dans vos discussions par message, il utilisait sûrement le correcteur automatique (comme bien des gens)

[vicky Dame_Unique❤️ @VictorineAndeng]

Le combat doit continuer, svp partagez au maximum. Les parents de ses enfants sont inconsolables. Nos autorités sont silencieuses , mais nous nous pouvons continuer à supplier ses gens de remettre les enfants de ses mamans en désespoirs.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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APPEL A TEMOINS - Kwedi Marion, âgée de 16 ans et élève en classe de Terminal C au Lycée de Makepe à Douala a été tuée par un camion le 6 mai dernier et le chauffeur a pris la fuite. Un appel est lancé pour identifier ce dernier…
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DU SANG ET DES LARMES.

La jeune fille sur cette photo s'appelait Kwedi Marion, elle était âgée de 16 ans, élève en classe de Terminal C au Lycée de Makepe à Douala.

Le 6 Mai dernier, alors qu'elle revenait d'une séance de révision avec ses camarades entre 14h30 et 15h, elle etait sur une moto lorsqu'un camion qui tentait de se faufiler a accroché son vêtement et l'a traîné sur pratiquement 15 mètres. La scène s'est déroulée à Kotto, entre le carrefour des immeubles et la montée happy sport. Le chauffeur va prendre la fuite et la jeune enfant agonisante va être conduite à l'hôpital de Bonamoussadi par un bon samaritain où elle va succomber à ses blessures.

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[D. Dugard @DONGUIMATSA]

@ChrisKouebou @BouNghom @EquinoxeTv_cm C'est pas la comm, mais les choix des uns et autres.