That means fuck ECOWAS as a tool of the oppressors also. Critical support for every most coup(s) in Africa, and for the rights of Africans to demand the French and US militaries leave their country.

Critical Readings:

  • Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah.
  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney.
  • Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa by T.D. Harper-Shipman.

Recommended readings:

  • Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawaii Statehood by Dean Itsugi Saranillio.
  • Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl.
    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Oh no, are you having hallucinations? Because last I checked the majority of coups in former French Africa were Russia/Wagner backed so there’s no strawman in sight.

      • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tfOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        You’re advocating for FRANCE to DICTATE TO AFRICAN COUNTRIES HOW THEY CAN BE SOVERIEGN. Do you not see the irony in that statement? When has France ever set up “Free and Fair Elections” in ANY of their vassal states or neo-colonies? Was it a free and fair election when they murdered democratically elected revolutionaries? Was it fair when they dictated the currency and exchange rate for all of their vassals? Who do the people support? Have you even looked? It’s not France lmao.

        • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          Nice strawman.

          I’m saying that the French people make it be known (as they’re so good at making things known to the government - probably the best in the world) that they don’t want their government to continue abusing their former colonies, then hopefully that gets pushed up the agenda for prospective parties, who then go on to organise a transition to full self rule. If that had happened before we wouldn’t be having this discussion, so not only are you constructing a strawman by using the acts of former French governments against a hypothetical future one, you’re not even destructing it properly as you’re just saying “look this happened before” rather than actually giving reasons as to why your hypothetical future French strawman government would go against the will of their voters to maintain control over their former colonies.

          • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tfOPEnglish
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            1 year ago

            So again, you don’t support Africans taking their sovereignty, but you do support French citizens asking their government to give African countries sovereignty.

            Why would the French government vote against the will of their constituency? I don’t know, maybe you should ask them why they forced through that retirement bill earlier this year.

            This all neglects the fact, that it is not the French governments NOR the French peoples right to determine African sovereignty, it is Africans right and theirs alone. I have a feeling you would’ve supported the French over Sankara just because he gained power in a coup.

            • mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org
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              1 year ago

              So again, you don’t support Africans taking their sovereignty, but you do support French citizens asking their government to give African countries sovereignty.

              both have the same result, and if the former is the only option then fine, but the latter certainly results in less death and suffering than a violent coup might

        • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          I meant recent/ongoing, as I imagine the OP did in their caption, but I see how the confusion arose reading the comment in isolation.

          That said, the Soviet Union did do their fair share of meddling in post-colonial Africa so it wouldn’t shock me, but I can’t remember which countries they were involved in off the top of my head so I couldn’t say yes or no with any real confidence