"Africa is shaped like a gun with the trigger in the Congo", said Frantz Fanon. Trigger ? I would opt more for the barrel. For a simple reason : is there a richer African country ? I'm talking about the Democratic Republic of Congo here, not from his sister across the river, wealthy too.
The documentary on the minerals sector in the DRC released on 31 August by Alain Foka on his YouTube channel, entitled "Chronicle : put an end to the slave trade in Africa ”, drew a lot of ink and saliva. Literally as well as figuratively, the DRC is the barrel of this symbolic revolver, the reserve of many, almost everything.
Ethiopia, geographically, reminds of the gun dog. This one, today, faces what could start a dark era for this country, leader of continental airspace and champion of reforestation. And seat of ... the African Union. Radio silence, among continental peers. In what could be the representation of the striker and the ridge together, Somalia has already been faced with the internal tearing that has split it up for the erection of what is now called Somaliland, although not recognized by all.
Is the bad example coming from next to be duplicated? ? A turn on the Ethiopian public channel - it is necessary well to have the local sound of bell - shows that those which are called elsewhere "rebels" are designated by the capacity in place by "terrorists". Vocabulary makes sense, and strongly depends on the position one occupies : inside or outside the country, in power or in the opposition, arms dealer or gun victim.
My only wish is that this country, the second most populous on the continent, the only one who has not been colonized, although this assertion gives rise to debate, can maintain its stability so dearly acquired. Don't ask me which dialogue or force would be appropriate, j’observe.
Waiting for, i hope lacrosse (West and North Africa), the trigger and the trigger (Cameroon and Central Africa), the Canon (Southern Africa), without forgetting the East African sub-region, all seated in the front row, will not come and play firefighters too late.
Victor-Emmanuel Ekwa-Bebe III