Month: April 2026

There is something deeply paradoxical in the relationship between Africa and the major multinationals operating there. On one side, a continent full of riches — mining, agriculture, human beings, energy. On the other hand, people who are still among the poorest in the world. In between, transnational corporations whose turnover sometimes exceeds the GDP of the host states.

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The word bothers. Because he refers to an idea that many would like to believe foreign to the African continent, or relegated to a past. Yet castes in Africa, particularly West Africa, remain a historical, social and political reality that no serious reading can ignore.

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Europe has fewer children, is ageing rapidly, lacks arms in its most essential occupations, and yet it is hardening its rejection of immigration at a time when the economy is structurally dependent on it. This paradox, seemingly absurd, becomes intelligible as soon as one stops treating it as a juxtaposition of crises and looks at it as a system: a chain of causalities, perceptions and feedback loops where fear — economic, cultural, security — works as a political accelerator.

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In our modern societies, the game redefines success. When easy gain replaces work, it's all an economic ethic that's waning.

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The exploitation of women does not belong to the past. It has not disappeared as a result of modernity, urbanization or digitisation of societies. She changed. She adapted. She has integrated the codes of luxury, development, humanitarianism, mentoring, visible success. She learned to speak the language of consent and to follow the paths of respectability.

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The news of this spring 2026 has dispelled an illusion that has structured Western economic thinking for more than three decades: that of an interdependent world but fundamentally stabilized by trade, finance, technology and institutions. The war that spread around Iran recalled that globalization had not abolished geopolitics; It had simply made it more diffuse, more systemic, and potentially more devastating.

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