Don't stop talking about Congo
Don't stop talking about Congo
Don't stop talking about Congo
Don't stop talking about Congo
Don't stop talking about Congo
The colonial powers barred Marcus Garvey from traveling to Africa. It’s a testament to the impact of his work that Garvey was able to have such an impact and influence in Africa, despite having never been there.
In the 1500s, Africans from the Kingdom of Kongo wrote letters directly to the kings of Portugal protesting slavery and kidnapping. They fully understood what Europe was doing and resisted it politically long before colonization peaked. Kingdom of Kongo
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them"
—Assata Shakur
Don't stop talking about Congo
Don't stop talking about Congo
Don't stop talking about Congo
Don't stop talking about Congo
Don't stop talking about Congo
FRENCH OUT OF AFRICA PROTEST UNDERWAY IN NAIROBI
DOWN WITH FRENCH IMPERIALISM!
AFRICA IS NOT FOR SALE!
Today, the patriotic and revolutionary forces of Kenya and Africa gather in Nairobi to expose and reject the so called Africa Forward Summit,
82 years ago, on December 1st 1944, African soldiers who fought and bled to help defeat the Nazis were massacred by the French army at Thiaroye massacre after demanding the salary they were promised. They survived Hitler, only to be murdered by the empire they defended.
They wear African flags. But they answer to foreign phone calls and policies.
The moment a new African president is elected, two things happen simultaneously. His people celebrate in the streets. And somewhere in Paris, Washington, or Brussels, a phone call is made — not to congratulate him, but to remind him of the terms.
This is not conspiracy. This is documented architecture.
The CFA Franc, still used by 14 African nations, is printed in France and requires African central banks to deposit 50% of their foreign reserves into the French Treasury. That is not partnership. That is financial occupation with a diplomatic handshake.
When Thomas Sankara refused the terms, he was assassinated. When Muammar Gaddafi proposed an African gold-backed currency to break Western financial dependency, NATO provided the air cover for his removal. When Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast resisted French economic control, he found himself at the International Criminal Court.
The pattern is not coincidence. It is policy.
Most African leaders are not weak men. Many are brilliant, educated, and politically skilled. But they operate inside a system deliberately designed to make African sovereignty expensive and Western compliance cheap. Debt conditions, military base agreements, currency controls, and trade frameworks all function as invisible leashes — elegant, legal, and suffocating.
The real question is not whether African presidents are loyal to Africa. The real question is: what happens to the ones who try to be?
What would it take for an African leader to truly govern for African people — and survive long enough to finish the job?
By Africa echo .
References:
- Pigeaud, F. & Sylla, N.S. — Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story (Pluto Press, 2021)
- Al Jazeera — "France's role in Africa: A history of intervention"(2023)