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AN IMPORTANT QUOTE FROM THE WRITER ALICE WALKER! UNE CITATION IMPORTANTE DE L’ÉCRIVAINE ALICE WALKER !
English version
The Afro-American writer Alice Walker, once made this profound observation:
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
Think about it!
Version française
L'écrivaine Afro-Américaine Alice Walker avait une fois fait cette profonde observation:
« La manière la plus courante pour que les gens abandonnent leur pouvoir est pour ces derniers de penser qu'ils n'en ont pas.»
Pensez-y !
The Afro-American writer Alice Walker, once made this profound observation:
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
Think about it!
Version française
L'écrivaine Afro-Américaine Alice Walker avait une fois fait cette profonde observation:
« La manière la plus courante pour que les gens abandonnent leur pouvoir est pour ces derniers de penser qu'ils n'en ont pas.»
Pensez-y !
OUR OPINION REGARDING JEAN-GASPARD NTOUTOUME AYI’S INTERVIEW! NOTRE OPINION À PROPOS DE L’INTERVIEW DE JEAN-GASPARD NTOUTOUME AYI !
English version
In his recent interview, the Gabonese politician Jean-Gaspard Ntoutoume-Ayi gives us a lucid and factual picture of the state in which our country finds itself and the dangers of the bouteflikalisation of its governance, given that Ali Bongo is now out of commission and that small groups of thugs are tearing up the country far from our eyes and controls.
Dear readers, to take the reflection proposed by Jean-Gaspard Ntoutoume-Ayi further, and to arm us with a method and a mindset allowing us to mature as a people and to become more demanding of ourselves and of those who lead us; beginning now let's take on the following habits:
1. Let us be guided by science, innovation and reflection; and no longer by emotions or ethnic determinism. Let us be demanding of everyone and ask that people show us proof of their experience and abilities, before trusting them or giving them any credit.
2. Let us be sure, before accepting them, that the solutions proposed to us would work for…
In his recent interview, the Gabonese politician Jean-Gaspard Ntoutoume-Ayi gives us a lucid and factual picture of the state in which our country finds itself and the dangers of the bouteflikalisation of its governance, given that Ali Bongo is now out of commission and that small groups of thugs are tearing up the country far from our eyes and controls.
Dear readers, to take the reflection proposed by Jean-Gaspard Ntoutoume-Ayi further, and to arm us with a method and a mindset allowing us to mature as a people and to become more demanding of ourselves and of those who lead us; beginning now let's take on the following habits:
1. Let us be guided by science, innovation and reflection; and no longer by emotions or ethnic determinism. Let us be demanding of everyone and ask that people show us proof of their experience and abilities, before trusting them or giving them any credit.
2. Let us be sure, before accepting them, that the solutions proposed to us would work for…
PAULINE NYINGONE, HISTORY WILL RECOGNIZE YOUR MERIT! PAULINE NYINGONE, L’HISTOIRE VOUS RECONNAITRA VOTRE MÉRITE !
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In 1993, the first pluralistic election was held in Gabon. Omar Bongo was flatly beaten by Paul Mba Abessole. Panicked, the regime and its French advisers decided to circumvent the process and have Omar Bongo declared winner with 51% of the vote; while the results of the province of the Estuary had not yet been officially published. This province is the most populous of Gabon and contains half of the electorate!
Madame Pauline Nyingone, then Governor of the Estuary Province, protested and resigned. But Marie Madeleine Mborantsuo, lover of Omar Bongo and also the mistress of Antoine de Padoue Mboumbou-Miyakou, at the time Minister of the Interior, validated the fraud. The same Mborantsuo remains in office today and it was she again who validated the forfeiture of 2016.
When the real history of Gabon is written, Pauline Nyingone will be hailed as a “founding mother” of a fairer, better Gabon; as she showed us the way to fight against the injustice of the Bongo regime. Even …
In 1993, the first pluralistic election was held in Gabon. Omar Bongo was flatly beaten by Paul Mba Abessole. Panicked, the regime and its French advisers decided to circumvent the process and have Omar Bongo declared winner with 51% of the vote; while the results of the province of the Estuary had not yet been officially published. This province is the most populous of Gabon and contains half of the electorate!
Madame Pauline Nyingone, then Governor of the Estuary Province, protested and resigned. But Marie Madeleine Mborantsuo, lover of Omar Bongo and also the mistress of Antoine de Padoue Mboumbou-Miyakou, at the time Minister of the Interior, validated the fraud. The same Mborantsuo remains in office today and it was she again who validated the forfeiture of 2016.
When the real history of Gabon is written, Pauline Nyingone will be hailed as a “founding mother” of a fairer, better Gabon; as she showed us the way to fight against the injustice of the Bongo regime. Even …
