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For supporting the ten year French-sponsored coup to overthrow constitutional order in Cote d’Ivoire and the execution of Gadhafi (rewarding terrorists in both instances), Obama has forever lost the respect of progressive Africa and we hope he spends his retirement, whether it’s in 2013 or 2017,  in visiting those whose bidding he’s done against the interest of Africa.  He’s earned his fan base in the elite parlors of Paris and London. We will not welcome him in Africa. Jacob Zuma gave his wife a taste of it when she visited South Africa earlier this year.

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Sunday, December 11, 2011

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After the great African drought of the beginning of the 1970s, Europe financed with long-term loans several agricultural projects of rural development. But in parallel the same Europe caused the failure of these projects, with a huge bill to be paid back by generations of Africans. For example: Cameroon run heavily into debt for creating SODEBLE (Society for Wheat Development); they set up a first wheat plantation of 10.000 hectares, bought in Europe fertilizers, seeds, insecticides, herbicides, bulldozers, tractors, trucks and other vehicles. A few years later, when the harvest was entering its optimal phase, Europe, in order to avoid that its grain-production surplus upset market prices, raised the rebates to its farmers on the wheat exported to Africa, with the consequences it knew could be expected: SODEBLE’s plans to cover the entire Central African wheat market turned into a nightmare of debit balances; the state of Cameroon had to come in, asking each year Europe for loans in order to keep SODEBLE alive, until its closure with all its hundreds of workers put out of work, some of them perhaps meeting again aboard an old boat to cross the Mediterranean.

Am I a Magician ? 7 years ago in 2004, I wrote and published this Article. I was then invited in April 2005 at European parliament in Brussels to explain and suggest to the European Union to change its attitude dealing with Africa if they wanted to save themselves. But instead of following my advices to consider Africa with more respect and harmonize a common development, they started from 2006  to try to convince China (without success) to stop his investments in Africa.

And as I had prophesied, they could only enter into an unstoppable crisis as soon as Africa would have started its real take-off, thanks to the new generation of Africans and thanks also to China. Please read.

By Jean-Paul Pougala*

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By Dr. Gary K. Busch

It is happening again. The CFA franc will be devalued on 1 January 2012 according to several reliable sources in West Africa.  This happened before, with disastrous consequences. On 12 January 1994 Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo (B), Cote d’Ivoire. Equatorial Guinea. Gabon, Mali. Mauritania, Niger and Senegal were informed that their common currency had been devalued by 50%. It would no longer cost 50 CFA francs to buy 1 French franc; it would now cost 100 CFA francs. There were violent reactions in many of the countries, especially Senegal, at the loss of 50% of their purchasing power. Now, in 2011, it will be even worse as high world prices for food, paid for in US dollars, will price imported food out of the reach of most Africans working in menial jobs, on the farms, as civil servants or unemployed.

The responsibility for this approaching disaster is the failure of the French economy to deal with its long-term structural debt and the use of French reserves to prop up the failing Euro and to participate in the several bailouts within the Eurozone. French wars in the Ivory Coast and, especially Libya, have cut a major hole in the French pocket. Their tame African partners, the presidents of francophone African states, are complicit in this plan for devaluation and continue to follow the lead of their protectors, the French Army, in whatever they suggest. This relationship is long-standing and a paradigm of neo-colonial enterprise.

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Helping individuals to plan their families reduces poverty by enabling increased productivity and broad economic development in turn. The world loses an estimated $15 billion a year in productivity as a result of maternal deaths and injuries — preventing unintended pregnancies could alter this number dramatically. In contrast, recent studies show that investing in contraceptive services could yield as much as a 4-fold return in medical cost savings, making it one of the most cost-effective development approaches out there.

By Dr. Frederick T. Sai*

Rose is a mother of four, with a fifth on the way. At a time when she should be eagerly awaiting the birth of her child, she is instead worried about how to prevent her next pregnancy. She’d like to wait at least two years, but she doesn’t have that say because she doesn’t have access to family planning.

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When Europeans had unparalled power in the world, they created untold havoc. They destroyed whole continents and their native populations; completely altering “human ecosystems”. Their brutality and savagery was unhibited. There are pictures of the Belgians in Congo and the French in Cameroun holding the heads of natives on sticks to terrorize native populations to submission as recently as the 1950s. In 2011, million dollar missiles seem to be more clinical and abstract.

Today, Europeans and their cousin-descendants in America have found in president Obama, a man of African pedigree, a perfect foil to use to destroy Africa and halt any aspirations of progress in the name of democracy. Obama provides salve for them. That’s all he’s good for!

Africa did not go the way of Australia and the Americas, but the Europeans and their cousin-descendants in the US are making sure that never will there emerge a native African who could inspire the continent’s emergence from its position as a source of unaccountable wealth for western interests.

It is very noteworthy that Gadaffi, who had a history of fomenting war in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s was never bothered; but the moment he outlined and began fostering the creation of institutions that would have safeguarded Africa’s wealth for its people, first and foremost, he had to die.

There are many Africans today cheering the execution of Gadaffi ordered by the Europeans and Americans because the white man has this wonderful and glowing history of concern for Africans’ wellbeing. Their past, littered with slavery, colonialism, apartheid is eloquent testimony.

TFT Magazine invites readers to click here to understand why Gadaffi was ordered executed by the Europeans and Americans.