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A STATE CANNOT BE HEARTLESS! UN ÉTAT NE PEUT ÊTRE SANS CŒUR!

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English version  Make way for the bulldozers!" On Thursday, November 5, 2026, the front page of  L'Union  spreads the headline in capital letters above a striking photo: an orange excavator in the middle of a field of rubble, a gutted building left half-standing, and a few passers-by watching in silence. The photo shows the machine and the ruins. It doesn't show the families who lived there the day before. A state has the right to transform its capital. It even has a duty to do so. But a state must take care not to become indifferent to its citizens' suffering. Modernizing Libreville and respecting the people who live there are not opposing goals: they are the same project, or there is no project at all. What is happening in Okala and Dibadiba The machines went into action on Wednesday, November 4. Two roads are targeted: the stretch from the Okala dispensary to the SEEG power station, and the road linking Lac-Bleu to Dibadiba. The stated goal is to widen the access ro...
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To chosify is to decay! Chosifier, c'est déchoir!

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English version  "When a society grants itself the right to objectify someone, it is preparing its own moral decay." This line, which sums up Aimé Césaire's thinking in his Discourse on Colonialism, has a strange resonance this 4 November, as the excavators move into Okala, Lac Bleu and Diba-Diba, and evicted families are still waiting for a roof over their heads. Nearly eighty years after its publication, Césaire's thought remains a mirror held up to every society, including our own. It does not merely ask whether a government is effective. It asks how that government looks at the human beings it governs. What Césaire said In 1950, in the  Discourse on Colonialism , Aimé Césaire summed up the colonial system in a brutal equation: "colonization = thingification." The colonized person is no longer a person, but labor, an obstacle, an item to be moved. His strongest argument lies elsewhere: this enterprise also degrades those who carry it out. To treat a human...
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