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masukuma wrote:AlphDoti wrote:tycho wrote:tycho wrote:AlphDoti wrote:tycho wrote:masukuma wrote:tycho wrote:masukuma wrote:tycho wrote:Is goodness measured by success in this case? what do you think? it's successful if it stands the test of time  Time has no test. Only intelligent creatures can test. just a lesson in history! not interested in a winding debate with you on ideology or semantics on this thread... this is history. start a thread for those winding and tiring debates. What lesson in history? You're just getting touchy because you can't think. I agree @tycho derives pleasure by differing and complicating... to him, nothing can be discussed in simple terms. Always why not this way, why not that way... blah blah. Maybe I'm not able to grasp his gist, I accept I do not. What are the simple terms in this case? Is there a simple argument here that should be accepted at face value? Ok, @AlphDoti; Start by answering the questions above. @tycho, here is a simple case... You can twist it the way you want. Quote:Slowly fear spread trough the african elite, and none after the Guinea events ever found the courage to follow the example of Sékou Touré, whose slogan was “We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery.”
Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of the Republic of Togo, a tiny country in west Africa, found a middle ground solution with the French.He didn’t want his country to continue to be a french dominion, therefore he refused to sign the colonisation continuation pact De Gaule proposed, but agree to pay an annual debt to France for the so called benefits Togo got from french colonization.It was the only conditions for the French not to destroy the country before leaving. However, the amount estimated by France was so big that the reimbursement of the so called “colonial debt” was close to 40% of the country budget in 1963.
The financial situation of the newly independent Togo was very unstable, so in order to get out the situation, Olympio decided to get out the french colonial money FCFA (the franc for french african colonies), and issue the county own currency.
On January 13, 1963, three days after he started printing his country own currency, a squad of illiterate soldiers backed by France killed the first elected president of newly independent Africa. Olympio was killed by an ex French Foreign Legionnaire army sergeant called Etienne Gnassingbe who supposedly received a bounty of $612 from the local French embassy for the hit man job.
Olympio’s dream was to build an independent and self-sufficient and self-reliant country. But the French didn’t like the idea.
On June 30, 1962, Modiba Keita , the first president of the Republic of Mali, decided to withdraw from the french colonial currency FCFA which was imposed on 12 newly independent African countries. For the Malian president, who was leaning more to a socialist economy, it was clear that colonisation continuation pact with France was a trap, a burden for the country development.
On November 19, 1968, like, Olympio, Keita will be the victim of a coup carried out by another ex French Foreign legionnaire, the Lieutenant Moussa Traoré.
In fact during that turbulent period of African fighting to liberate themselves from European colonization, France would repeatedly use many ex Foreign legionnaires to carry out coups against elected presidents... what about the colonial taxes? "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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