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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.
This is a new world-class hospital completed and built in El Salvador by their president with the equivalent of 85billion naira.
An audit by the nigerian senate uncovered 210 TRILLION naira was “missing” from NNPC in 2017-2023.
Nigerian politicians need to be tied and killed.
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Déporter qui, puisqu’ils sont Français de troisième ou quatrième génération ? Et surtout, qui en voudra ? Vous croyez que les pays de leurs ancêtres souhaitent voir débarquer cette espèce alien de France, inéduquée, inculte, décérébrée et illettrée bilingue ?
Mettez-vous bien cela en tête : ils sont Français, et rien d’autre. Au Maghreb, ils ne pourraient pas exister, encore moins dans le monde arabe, où les autorités sont craintes et respectées.
Ces gens sont une pure création de la politique française, le produit d’un mélange de parents absents, d’une éducation de rue, d’un État sans autorité, de politiciens corrompus et lâches, et de concitoyens mous et peureux !