Africa: Continues to Pay France a Colonial
Tax
Global Economic Slavery - Part 1
For
the past two years I have ponder the question of why the natural resource rich
continent of Africa, continues to be riddled with poverty and conflict. Just
recently I was speaking with a friend and we began discussing this very
topic. But before I begin to examine why, with all of Africa’s natural resources,
this country remains in poverty and war torn, let me first present you with
some interesting facts that I stumbled
across while researching information about Africa’s natural wealth.
Did
you know that today, at this very second, 14 African countries continue to be
forced by France to pay a Colonial Tax for the benefit of their independence in
1958?? Sylvanus Olympio, the first
president of the Republic of Togo, a tiny country in West Africa, found a
middle ground solution with the French.
He didn’t want his country to continue to be a French dominion, and had
visions of a free country therefore he refused to sign the colonization
continuation pact De Gaule proposed, but agree to pay an annual debt to France
for the so called benefits Togo got from French colonization.
The French were also to leave without causing
any destruction however, that was not the case.
Everything from schools, nurseries, public administration buildings were
destroyed; cars, books, medicine, research institute instruments, tractors were
crushed and sabotaged; horses, cows in the farms were killed, and food in
warehouses were burned or poisoned.
On
January 13, 1963, three days after he started printing his country own
currency, a squad of illiterate soldiers backed by France killed the first
elected president of newly independent Africa. Olympio was killed by an ex
French Foreign Legionnaire army sergeant who supposedly received a bounty of
$612 from the local French embassy. This story continues to repeat itself
throughout several other countries in Africa.
As
of January 2014, there were 14 African countries that required through a
colonial pact with France, to put 85% of their foreign reserve into France
central bank and under the strict control of the French minister of Finance.
They are putting in 500 Billion dollars every year to the French
treasury!!! 500 Billion!!! In fact
France allows them to access only 15% of the money in any given year. If there
is need for any more, they need to borrow the extra money from their own 65%
from the French Treasury at commercial rates. African leaders who refuse to do
so, are killed or victim of coup. Those who obey are rewarded by France with
lavish lifestyle while their people endure extreme poverty, and desperation.
In
addition the colonial pact also includes the following:
•
Right of first refusal on any raw or natural resource discovered in the
country. France has the first right to buy any natural resources found in the
land of its ex-colonies. It’s only after France would say, “I’m not
interested”, that the African countries are allowed to seek other partners.
• Priority to French interests and companies in
public procurement and public biding. In the award of government contracts,
French companies must be considered first, and only after that these countries
could look elsewhere. It doesn’t matter if the African countries can obtain
better value for money elsewhere.
• Exclusive right to supply military equipment
and train the country military officers. Through a sophisticated scheme of
scholarships, grants, and “Defense Agreements” attached to the Colonial Pact,
the Africans should send their senior military officers for training in France
or French ran-training facilities. The situation on the continent now is that France
has trained hundreds, even thousands of traitors and nourishes them. They are
dormant when they are not needed, and activated when needed for a coup or any
other purpose!
• Right for France to pre-deploy troops
and intervene military in the country to
defend its interests. Under something called “Defense Agreements” attached to
the Colonial Pact, France had the legal right to intervene militarily in the
African countries, and also to station troops permanently in bases and military
facilities in those countries, run entirely by the French.
French Military Bases in Africa
• Obligation to make French the official language of the country and the language for education. A French language and culture dissemination organization has been created called “Francophonie” with several satellites and affiliates organizations supervised by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. Obligation to use France colonial money FCFA
That’s the real milk cow for France, but it’s such an evil system even denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to move from that colonial system which puts about 500 billion dollars from Africa to its treasury.
• Obligation to send France annual balance and reserve report. Without the report, no money.
Anyway the secretary of the Central banks of the ex-colonies and the secretary of the bi-annual meeting of the Ministers of Finance of the ex-colonies is carried out by France Central bank / Treasury.
• Renunciation to enter into military alliance with any other country unless authorized by France.
African countries in general are the ones with will less regional military alliances. Most of the countries have only military alliances with their ex-colonizers!. In the case France ex-colonies, France forbids them to seek other military alliance except the one it offered them.
• Obligation to ally with France in situation of war or global crisis
Over one million Africans soldiers fought for the defeat of Nazism and fascism during the Second World War. Their contribution is often ignored or minimized, but when you think that it took only 6 weeks for Germany to defeat France in 1940, France knows that Africans could be useful for fighting for la “Grandeur de la France” in the future.
The article illustrates just one of many factors which continue to chain the countries of Africa to the white and European slave owners of the 21st Century. What does one say to all of this?? This angry white woman could rant and rave and rant some more, insult those I feel are the perpetrators of all this abuse and murder …maybe even throw in a few vile cuss words!! But I am so astounded and almost in shock, that everywhere I turn, I seem to find another set of chains and shackles which continues to enslave the African and Black Americans, that I am totally dumbfounded!
I wanted to post this ASAP but by the same token, I need a minute to process and put the facts into the proper perspective and context, in order to respond appropriately. So I will provide a response when I post Part 2 - “Africa’s Natural Resources”.
In the same way that I have attempted to process the American plan to destroy the Black community, is the same way in which I have to attempt to look at Africa’s story. I had to sit and reflect on the enormity of a history which progresses into a longstanding current event! The very thought of the level of desperation and pure agony for which I have absolutely NO CLUE as to its level, extent, variety and depth of misery, torment, hopelessness and sorrow of the African people, made my eyes fill up.
But this is NOT about me and how the nightmare affects my core. It is about humanity and the price of evil verses goodness. The very thought that the people who happen to have a dark skin color and a variety of unique features as each one of us all have, continue to endure and suffer such vile acts of racial hatred, oppression, despicable murderous acts, leads me to one and only one conclusion. No matter what the end result may be, my bet is on the fact that the following is an undeniable truth:
I have concluded, embrace and find some level of comfort knowing, that the worldwide Black race, are truly....
Gods Only Chosen People!
Excerpts from Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN Mawuna Koutonin is a
world peace activist who relentlessly works to empower people to express their
full potential and pursue their dreams, regardless of their background. He is
the Editior of SiliconAfrica.com, Founder of Goodbuzz.net, and Social activist
for Africa Renaissance. Koutonin’s ultimate dream is to open a world-class
human potential development school in Africa in 2017.
