BAOBIZZ: An African Perspective on Global Issues
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In our modern societies, the game redefines success. When easy gain replaces work, it's all an economic ethic that's waning.
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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