By Aloysius AGENDIA
Just as in 1961
when the Congolese nationalist and 
Pa
n Africanist Patrice Lumumba was arrested with the complicity of Belgian
forces and UN troops and handed over to Moise Tshombe, and subsequently killed
under the auspices of CIA, Belgian forces and neo-colonial agent, Mombutu Seseko,
on April 11, 2011 the president of Cote D Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo was overthrown
by French troops in an assault at his residence that also included UN troops and rebels forces of
Alasane Ouattara. This coup d ‘etat was the completion of the earlier failed
coup d’état of 2002 and 2004. Just as President
Laurent was being humiliated on television, two French ships were already about
leaving Abidjan sea port with millions of barrels of oil. And that is just the beginning
of another drama that risk making Cote D Ivoire take the shape of DRC today i.e.
a banana republic. That is certainly not
my wish.
pounded
an African nation with bombs and in the process allegedly killed hundreds of civilians
and destroyed non military targets is an “African American”, and again, the
first African American president of the United States of America, Barack
Hussein Obama.