A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #284 - Chronicle "Echo d'Afrique": The arrogance of Vincent Bolloré (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]

Vincent Bolloré found himself in custody on April 24, then indicted for bribery of foreign 
public officials, complicity of abuse of trust and complicity of false. While he was used 
to pursuing too critical journalists, or shaping opinion through his media empire, he is 
pushed to communicate through a tribune in the Journal du dimanche (JDD) of April 29 on 
his line in order to reassure public opinion (and especially the financial markets). ---- 
The businessman wonders in these terms " Should Africa be abandoned ? " And believes that 
suspicions feed on the perception, false according to him, of Africa " land of 
non-governance ", a vision " miserabilist " of the continent where his group would have 
invested 4 billion euros and would live some 30,000 families. ---- Unfortunately, readers 
of the JDD will certainly not be pleased to read or hear the reactions of Africans who 
know the reality of the predation of the Bolloré group and its consequences. It noted in 
particular the " response " of Olivier Dossou commentator from the Malian Diaspora in 
Europe, for whom " the tribune of Vincent Bolloré especially remain a sequence of 
hypocrisy, condescension and colonial cliches against Africans . "

Dossou points out what the figures put forward by Bolloré do not say: behind the billions 
of investment, there are above all miraculous profits, releasing more than 80% of the 
profits of the group. Behind the 30,000 families who " live through him ", there are 
dangerous wage conditions and poverty wages.

The answer methodically returns all the arguments of Vincent Bolloré in his tribune, while 
he plays the States to which he asserts himself as a superpower benefiting from the assets 
of Françafrique (franc CFA, diplomatic relations, francophonie, etc.).

According to Dossou, " Bolloré laughs at Africans " ... which is not surprising since his 
platform is intended to reassure the financial markets and preserve its image with the 
French ... neither one nor the other hear the dissonant voices Africans and Africans ! But 
this contempt is well and truly felt by many of them. " Africans aspire to be actors of 
their own destiny and not spectators. However, the fierce hold in Africa of transnationals 
like Bolloré, proceeds from an emasculation of local creative genius totally despised 
![...]The arrogance of a Bolloré translates above all the abyssal strategic void of the 
African leadership with felonious leaders, without major philosophical project, therefore 
without "utopia", able to raise the economic and social standards of the populations. "

Let's hope that one day, by so much being despised, Africans and Africans unite and stand 
up to free their leaders, dictators, Bolloré, Total and consort, and take control of their 
destiny.

Christmas Surge (AL Carcassonne)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Chronique-Echo-d-Afrique-L-arrogance-de-Vincent-Bollore
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