tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2615018155447490462.post8482826033003520709..comments2022-04-09T19:54:41.195-07:00Comments on Leo Kanisani: The Servitude of the Colonial PactLeo Kanisanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05158210858222351894noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2615018155447490462.post-9197184706145972992011-05-24T13:58:53.961-07:002011-05-24T13:58:53.961-07:00Anonymous, it seems like all your comment is tryin...Anonymous, it seems like all your comment is trying to do is to provide a justification for the enslavement of these countries through this regime. The issue is the percentage of these countries monies they are forced to hand off to France, and which are not accounted for. So, are you telling me that stealing this 65-85% of these peoples' monies is some form of help to them? And this has been going on now for about 60 years. To understand why Equatorial Guinea might have joined in, imagine their leaders want to steal their monies silently .. aha, now you get the picture? .. They collude with France and that is an easy and ready made way to take as much of their nation's money as the leaders want .. leaving the rest for France to do as she pleases .. and expectedly, without accounting for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2615018155447490462.post-91433684827371201982011-04-02T19:31:11.372-07:002011-04-02T19:31:11.372-07:00There is nothing wrong in this arrangement so long...There is nothing wrong in this arrangement so long as it is an admission of the incapacity of the African countries to effectively manage their own monetary or financial environments. Look at Nigeria with its huge earnings obtained from oil exports for several decades and tell us how much of that money has been reinvested in Nigeria. What is the fate of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal that opted join a common European currency (the Euro) but are today in default and require bailout that comes largely from the German treasury? In contrast to the import of your article, over the decades, we have witnessed more countries joining the CFA zone than at the time of independence. Why would Equatorial Guinea join the CFA zone with all its oil wealth ... or Mali which had once flirted with its own independent currency coming back into the zone ... or Sao Tome & Principe knocking on doors of the CFA to become a member?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2615018155447490462.post-11836197229343370102011-03-14T10:52:08.255-07:002011-03-14T10:52:08.255-07:00'The Colonial Pact' in Feb 'New Africa...'The Colonial Pact' in Feb 'New African' was also my reason to seek further knowledge on The Colonial Pact. As a dane living in Zambia my knowledge of the francophone African History is limited, and Your article is an enlightment on a for me unknown absurd leftover from the colonial times. The crisis in Ivory Coast can be seen in a whole new light. You give the arguments for these countries to break out of the CFA, but is the strength to built up a sustainable system present? Here I have a generation of african men in mind, who seems to replace objectivity with subjectivity. Let's build a world (read trade agreements, etc.), where the same effort is equally rewarded.<br /><br />Does your book from 2005 come in an english translation? Search on the english title returns no results.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2615018155447490462.post-31116001335574928852011-02-28T01:47:21.125-08:002011-02-28T01:47:21.125-08:00I am utterly shocked to read about the colonial pa...I am utterly shocked to read about the colonial pact, as a South African we are hardly exposed to such nonsense by our media, we are only made to believe that its Africa Big Man that are problem to the development of Africa only to find western countries on a full time looting spreeEverything under the Sunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03157921819919742537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2615018155447490462.post-89271491880700603352011-02-24T15:02:58.741-08:002011-02-24T15:02:58.741-08:00I acquired my february issue of New African yester...I acquired my february issue of New African yesterday and upon reading about the colonial pact i felt incensed and utterly depressed. I live in Ghana and I can't fathom why any African country let alone the CFA using countries continue to deal with France. The colonial pact is criminal and smacks of dictatorship.<br /><br />In its current state, its worse than the rstate of afffairs when France was still ruling francophone Africa.<br />The pact must be Abrogated immediately! We Africans are not chicken. Why should any country obligatorily first sell its produce to France before selling to other countries even when France may not be buying at a fair price?<br />Gbagbo, from the irregularities and the France nonsense of a colonial pact, am solidly behind youRahman Ramsis Bayongnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2615018155447490462.post-44472712629707832142011-02-13T13:50:16.667-08:002011-02-13T13:50:16.667-08:00Having just read 'The Colonial Pact' in th...Having just read 'The Colonial Pact' in the Feb 'New African'I feel so dispondant. I'm an English man happily living in Tunisia. I am so proud of the Tunisian's that have said 'enough is enough'.<br />I only wish the CFA members would find that same courage and that France would find political creadability. <br />We are after all living in 2011 not the dark ages.<br />R J C..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2615018155447490462.post-55429619337879373692011-02-09T00:41:24.312-08:002011-02-09T00:41:24.312-08:00thanks Osarhieme for you comments you must have he...thanks Osarhieme for you comments you must have heard the EU observer chief make comments that the elections were fair and democratic yesterday and that Quattara should be given to rule IC. <br /><br />Observer reports from certain African civil society groups confirmed substantial irregularities.<br />The Observer Mission of the African Union noted “serious acts of violence, namely losses of human lives, infringement of physical integrity, intimidations, and abduction attempts and damage to electoral material,” including cases where Mr. Gbagbo’s representatives were “unable to participate in any polling process” in an entire district. The mission documented over 70 polling stations where results were “signed either in the absence of [Mr. Gbagbo’s] representatives, or by themselves under… constraint,” concluded that the ballot process in those locations “could not be held in the transparent way which is essential for the honesty of the ballot,” and noted that the events “constitute[d] an important technicality” in the election. The mission called for “careful assessment from the competent institutions… to determinate their impact on the ballots”. <br />A coalition of 21 non-governmental organizations under the umbrella of the Coordination of the Observers from the International Mission of the African Civil Society (COMISCA), reported that “some active members and representatives of the LMP Party were prevented from voting freely, ballot boxes were carried by men in uniform precisely in the Korhogo, Mankono, and Seguela areas, [they] witnessed… manhandling of some persons inside the polling stations, the ballot secrecy was violated and instructions on how to vote were given by some members of the polling stations, some corporal and material damages were recorded as well.” COMISCA ultimately concluded that the circumstances “strongly called into question” “the democratic process” .<br />CEPECA, The Organization of the emissaries for the promotion of credible elections in Africa, “denounced the violence and barbarous deed perpetuated on [Mr. Gbagbo’s] representatives,” noting among other irregularities that Mr. Gbagbo’s representatives were in places prevented from voting and subject to verbal and physical attacks, that ex-rebels took ballot boxes to unknown places, that “there was stuffing of ballots on a large scale” and “serious infringement of human rights,” and that section agents gave orders favoring the opposition.<br />An EU-funded domestic coalition of 134 civil society groups under the umbrella of the Convention of Ivorian Civil Society (CSCI), the largest civil society coalition in the Ivory Coast, dispatched over 1,000 monitors to 38% of the polling stations. They noted late and insufficient election material, violence and intimidation at polling stations, destruction of ballots and ballot boxes, multiple voting, barring of voters, barring of monitors, and the insecure transfer of ballots, including attacks on convoys .<br />The African Civil Society for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, OSCADAE, concluded that “the credibility of the polling was strongly called into question” in some of the stations where, among other irregularities, “candidate representatives, notably from [Mr. Gbagbo’s party], were prevented from doing their duty” and “physical attacks were recorded” .Leo Kanisanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05158210858222351894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2615018155447490462.post-10124410420873498902011-02-08T06:37:37.901-08:002011-02-08T06:37:37.901-08:00I just read about the"colonial pact"in t...I just read about the"colonial pact"in the february 2011 edition of New African magazine and i decided to get more information on it and i came across this article online.I am deeply sadden to know the extent and depth of such a pact on africa's political and economic life.If Gbagbo and his combrades stand to change the status quo,we,the masses give them our support.osarhiemenoreply@blogger.com