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France And Her Three-Card Monte in Africa

There are, despite the currency shuffle, little changes being made or applied to the remnants of the Colonial Pact; preferences for French companies in competitive bidding, monopoly positions in utilities and services; stationing of French troops, inter alia. This new scheme is a bluff and a ruse for maintaining French control. It masks the fact that France is deeply in debt with rising costs, and that the francophone states will never be free until they cut their umbilical cord to France and stand on their own in the company of their fellow Africans