Article

2023-08-14 Africa North

France never stopped looting Africa, now the tables are turning

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by badanov 2023-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Moreover, a vast network of French business interests, which include major multinational companies, dominate industries such as energy, communications, and transportation in many African countries.

Where before France. there was nothing. After France departs, nothing will return.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-14 02:29|| 2023-08-14 02:29|| Front Page Top

This is the franc that the French created and forced African countries to use. Africa sends their rich resources to France, France sells them back this paper at a profit. This has continued for decades. And the French think that they're generous in removing Africa from its wealth. You think Africans aren't angry at finding out they're being ripped off in this way?

Remember Khadafi's gold-backed dinar, for trade among African countries? That would deprive the French of their highly unethical usury? Wow, he got overthrown super fast after that idea. Now the cork is off the bottle of African migration and they're flooding Europe.

Shows you what they will do to protect their right to loot other countries.

Posted by Harcourt Tholuse6841 2023-08-14 04:46|| 2023-08-14 04:46|| Front Page Top

Posted by Harcourt Tholuse6841 2023-08-14 04:47|| 2023-08-14 04:47|| Front Page Top

#4 I often read that African mortality rate was less, that unemployment was less, and poverty was less, and literacy rate was increased and they had larger middle class (where less bush meat is consumed) under colonialism.

Posted by mossomo 2023-08-14 12:40|| 2023-08-14 12:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Looting? Perhaps, but the usual situation is that most colonies cost more than they bring back in revenue and are held more for national prestige.

The French also had an interesting custom in that there was their armed forces were divided into the Metropolitan France forces based and paid for from European France. Almost all of the colonial forces were paid and recruited from the colonies directly. As the French began shuttering their colonial empire their 'oversea army' imploded spectacularly. As they pulled back they negotiated favorable, almost monopolistic, trade agreements ...but compared to the endemic corruption of the Third World it is hard to say if these contracts were 'a good thing or a bad thing'.

There is a story (Too good to check?) that the departing French presented a bill to the 'new governments' for all of the colonial improvements --paid in full if they did not sign up for French (near-)monopolistic interests in their post-colonial countries. Supposedly, as the story goes, one colony told the French to 'pound sand and just leave!' ...the French then started boxing up all the municipal indoor plumbing, rolling up all the overhead cables and basically returning much of what was there to empty concrete buildings. Supposedly the other ex-colonies got The Message™.

Posted by magpie 2023-08-14 17:13|| 2023-08-14 17:13|| Front Page Top

#6 RE: #3 A bit of a graphic design nightmare, but I suppose it cuts down on counterfeiting.

Lemme see if I understand this right:
So there was this dirt in Africa nobody was using for nothing.
Western Civilization in the form of France shows up and says we'll trade you money for that dirt.
France turns the dirt into electricity to run their corner of civilization.
African leaders squander the money on things other than building the infrastructure to power their future.
So yeah, it's definitely the White Man(tm)'s fault.

Posted by SteveS 2023-08-14 18:00|| 2023-08-14 18:00|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Thank you Steve.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-14 19:38|| 2023-08-14 19:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Magic dirt / Tragic dirt. As I've mentioned before, it seems to have a lot to do with who's standing on it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-14 19:59|| 2023-08-14 19:59|| Front Page Top

23:59 Sonny Snumble2360
23:59 Skidmark
23:56 Skidmark
23:52 Skidmark
23:50 Skidmark
23:48 Abu Uluque
23:48 Skidmark
23:45 Skidmark
23:19 trailing wife
23:18 Abu Uluque
23:17 trailing wife
23:14 Abu Uluque
22:47 Matt
22:40 DooDahMan
22:28 Frank G
22:20 Frank G
22:16 Ululating Platypus
22:06 Sonny Snumble2360
22:03 Sonny Snumble2360
21:53 Frank G
21:36 DooDahMan
21:34 DooDahMan
21:18 By now
21:11 Zorba Tholugum4787