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WE MUST BE WARY OF ABSOLUTE POWER, AND ITS COROLLARY, ABSOLUTE KOUNABELISM! MÉFIONS NOUS ET DU POUVOIR ABSOLU, ET DE SON COROLLAIRE, LE KOUNABELISME ABSOLU!

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English version  Dear readers, when we look at what is happening in Gabon, one cannot help but notice that absolute power gives birth to something even more toxic and pernicious: absolute kounabelism. Absolute power destroys all respect for diversity of opinion, through the absence of contradiction. Don't you hear the uncompromising outbursts of CBON and his courtiers: "Yes, we're going to break things, because the country needs to develop. You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs," and so on. When you speak to them of measure and dialogue, they come back shouting: "It's you who are holding the country back; Gabonese people must move forward under the whip." Others go so far as to become apostles of injustice, especially when it falls on Alain Claude Bilié By Nzé. But history teaches us that all power needs resistance, a return of the real, to stay attuned to what it governs. A power that no longer encounters any counter-power, any criticism, a...
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NO, THE APPARENT SIMPLICITY OF CBON AND HIS INCLINATION FOR POPULISM, WILL NOT DEVELOP THE COUNTRY! NON, L’APPARENTE SIMPLICITÉ DE CBON ET SON PENCHANT POUR LE POPULISME NE DÉVELOPPERONT PAS LE PAYS !

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English version  Dear readers, this post is a warning about the seduction of affability and simplicity, shown by a leader. Complex problems: economic stagnation, corruption, weak institutions, ethnic or regional tension, etc., have causes that are tangled, structural, and slow-moving. But human beings (and especially uneducated ones and people leaving in precarious conditions) crave clean explanations and quick fixes.  So there's always someone offering one easy ready made solution: "it's the elites," "it's the foreigners," "it's one corrupt minister," "it’s Bilié By Nzé alone" "just do this and it's solved."  History teaches us that the existence of a simple answer is not evidence of its truth. In fact, for genuinely complicated questions, the simple answer is almost always wrong precisely because it ignores the complexity. The neatness is a warning sign, not a reassurance. The belief that a likable president showin...
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WHAT WOULD ALI AKBAR ONANGA Y’OBEGUE COMPLAIN ABOUT? DE QUOI SE PLAINDRAIT ALI AKBAR ONANGA Y’OBEGUE?

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English version  In a speech, one of those who can now be counted on the fingers of a one-armed man, that is, the endangered species made up of people still loyal to Ali Bongo, delivered a scathing indictment against CBON, even implicitly calling him ungrateful. This is because Gabon, in the ill-gotten gains case in France, appears to be pointing the finger at Omar Bongo Ondimba. French justice considers that Omar Bongo himself orchestrated the embezzlement scheme. For example, he allegedly handed over several tens of millions of euros in cash to a Gabonese decorating company, Atelier 74, to carry out real estate acquisitions in France, with the money then passing through a French account belonging to that company. The Paris Court of Appeal notably granted the Gabonese state itself civil party status in the investigation targeting the Bongo family. In other words, Gabon, as a state, has officially become a civil party against the heirs of the president who led the country for 42 ye...
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