Month: May 2026

For more than half a century, Africa has sought its path between two aspirations often presented as complementary but which in practice sometimes seem to be in tension: political democracy and economic development. The issue deserves to be discussed without taboo, but also without simplification.

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There are paradoxes that resist euphemism. The nation that has proclaimed itself a universal beacon of freedom now holds more prisoners than any other country on Earth. — More than China, more than Russia, more than any authoritarian regime Washington likes to point fingers. This figure is not a statistical anomaly: it is a revelation.

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We are not only in a phase of « return from war » ; We are in a phase of political, budgetary, industrial and media normalization of preparation for war. It's not exactly the same thing. The first is a strategic finding: the international order is more conflicting. The second is a cultural shift: war ceases to be thought of as the ultimate failure of politics to become a plausible horizon of public action.

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There are political victories whose history should be wary of even before they are celebrated. So complete, so perfect, so consistent with the slogans that brought them, that they end up looking like an autopsy. The Europe of 2050 belongs to this rare category: a continent that obtained exactly what some of its leaders had promised for thirty years, before discovering, a little late, that reality had the bad taste of not respecting the elements of language.

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I am not writing to flatter you or to beg you. I do not write to remind you of your duties, for you know them when they serve your communication. I don't write to you to ignore outside crimes, already too many. I am writing to tell you the other truth: that of our inner betrayals. I write to you because a continent can be looted by the stranger, but it is really on its knees only when its own sons learn to speak the language of looting with a local accent.

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I am not writing to you to beg your gratitude or to seek your compassion. I'm not writing to move you. I am not writing to convince you: you have had centuries to understand. I'm writing you to establish the facts. I'm writing to file a brief. I'm writing to you so that language stops protecting crime. I am writing to you so that the silence, once again, is not on the side of the victors.

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I am not writing to understand you or to absolve you. I'm not writing to you to get reparation: some losses are not repairing. I'm writing you to establish the facts. I'm writing to file a brief. I am writing to you so that the silence does not come to complete what you have begun.

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