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Fuck French Imperialism Rule
(lemmy.tf)
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.
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.
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
Well, they’ve had 50 years to surrender their neo-colonies, you can’t fault Africans for getting tired of waiting and seizing their sovereignty themselves. Or you can, but you’d be an idiot.