Gradually, I will show beyond reasonable doubt that Europe, and by extension America, are behind underdevelopment in Africa, poverty, and will never sit and watch an African country prosper unless they are the ones controlling the economy.

In other words, we will be able to see clearly that Mzungu is the devil behind what bedevils Africa.

For starters,

As commander of the army and Defense Minister, Mr. Bokassa, then a colonel, was plucked by France to overthrow the Central African Republic's first President, his cousin David Dacko, when Mr. Dacko began establishing close ties with China. Mr. Bokassa's legendary devotion to France and fierce anti-Communism made him the perfect candidate in Paris's view to replace Mr. Dacko.

Within days of taking power, Mr. Bokassa broke off relations with Beijing, expelling a large delegation of Chinese advisers.

But eventually, a combination of increasingly frequent bids for independence in foreign affairs by Mr. Bokassa and a growing opposition to the Emperor's extravagance at home led France to conclude that he must go.

In September 1979, in one of the first actions of its type in Africa in which foreign troops were used to overthrow a leader in power, 700 French paratroopers took control of Bangui while Mr. Bokassa was in Libya.

Citing the growing repressiveness of his rule, and the reports of cannibalism, France installed Mr. Dacko, whom it had prompted Mr. Bokassa to overthrow 14 years earlier, as President.

The charges of cannibalism got their start in an article published in Paris-Match magazine that included photographs purporting to show a refrigerator in which the Central African leader kept the bodies of schoolchildren who had been arrested and beaten to death. They had protested having to wear uniforms made from a cloth sold by a business run by the Emperor's wife.

Read the whole dossier here

I believe it...

@ Impunity...siht si eno fo eht seussi ew dluohs erongi sa hsiligne si a bustard's language. A single or a couple of grammatical errors should not concern an African.

@Sanity...For a long time, I believed that Bakassa actually ate children and human heads were found in his fridge. That is how the French were successful in lying to the world.

Do they lie today? Yes they do. Their leaders are as dirty as a bunga bunga party can go. That is why they prefer bunga bunga loving leaders in Africa whom they install to do their bidding.

More articles are on the way.

Sanity, correct me when you feel am getting out of the way as my intention is to expose the rot that is Western Relationship with Africa.

@kiha..you are spot on ..well, most of the misery that we africans undergo can be traced all the way back to europe....thats why I agree with Walter Rodney's 'How europe underdeveloped Africa'.

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