"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

    English version   In Gabon, at the moment, politically, economically and socially, we live in absolutely crazy times, where we are led by sick people who think that the reason of the craziest is always the best.   Within the Bongo regime, the era of "post-truth" is in full swing and for them, fabulations seem to have more weight than reality. Unreason triumphs over rationality. The proof? the so-called Bay of Kings project.   This project has been a lie since its inception. The objective analysis of public policy priorities at the time of the announcement of this project had led the most lucid to a deep and ardent skepticism when it came to its feasibility and even its necessity. The regime's decision-makers produced their models and proclaimed that this project would be delivered before 2020.   Dear readers, recently, the Ali Bongo regime had just announced that phase 1 of the project had been delivered with satisfaction. But it is a scandal, a me

      English version   Lamont Dozier, the giant Motown songwriter behind hits such as the Supremes’ “Baby Love” and “You Keep Me Hanging On,” has died, his family said overnight. He was 81.   Dozier's death was confirmed by his son, Lamont Dozier Jr.   As one-third of the iconic songwriting group Holland-Dozier-Holland, Dozier was behind a string of hits from major artists including the Supremes, the Four Tops, the Isley Brothers and Martha and the Vandellas.   Their catalog highlights include “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Baby, I Need Your Loving,” “Stop! In The Name of Love,” “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and more, according to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which credited the trio's work as forming a "major part of the Motown success."   Holland-Dozier-Holland was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1888 and later into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.   According to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Dozier, who was b

      English version   Gabon has a government that, worryingly, plays with the phenomenon of post-truth, that is to say that the regime does not care about the factual truths relating to contingent and real events; but has fictitious and false truths, the creation of which obeys the need of the regime to present many of its fables to the Gabonese people. At this game, the master is Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze.   De facto truths, for every rational person, are established truths; but before the Bongo regime, practicing post-truth, any embarrassing event must be reduced to the rank of vulgar opinions to which the regime decides that the Gabonese people must not subscribe.   For example, according to the regime, through the voice of Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze, Bruno Mboulou-Beka was not killed by the bullets of the regime's militias, but by knife following a neighborhood brawl; even if all the clues indicate that he was shot in the head. The regime even found a foren

 

    English version   Like a struggling political soul, Alexandre Barro Chambrier travels through Gabon in pre-campaign, without arousing the slightest interest. In fact, no one cares. The Gabonese people are sick and tired of this farce. Electoralism is dead in Gabon because it has been poisoned by too much fraud. The Gabonese people seem to have chosen abstention as a mode of political protest.   The increasingly striking abstention in Gabon is an electoral behaviour that reveals a deep crisis of confidence. This abstention is linked to an electoral system that is based on a terrible electoral code, suspicious and unidirectional official results, and pervasive electoral fraud.   But it should also be noted that abstention is nevertheless directly linked to the political offering. It must be admitted that the Gabonese political class of the moment is particularly mediocre; that its proposals are outdated; that all of this leads voters to lose interest if not in the polit

      English version   Dear readers, imagine having been a brilliant student, having graduated from a fine university like La Sorbonne, Oxford etc.; having travelled the world, living in Paris, New-York, London etc.; having access to good roads, good hospitals and permanent electricity and clean water. Then imagine going back to Gabon, seeing the bad conditions in the country and concluding that everything is going well and the Bongos are doing a good job.   Dear readers, this is unfortunately the kind of schizophrenia many people who support the Bongos are suffering from. The Bongos have been in power for 55 years; this means that for generations, many Gabonese are used to having two different lives: a) a public life where they profess to be supporters of the regime and act accordingly with enormous zeal; b) then a private life where they hate the Bongos in secret; laugh at them with disdain; and wish for them to be kicked out.   This schizophrenic existence that