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A FOLKLORIC AND THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT OF POWER! UNE GESTION FOLKLORIQUE ET THÉÂTRALE DU POUVOIR!

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English version   construction site visit, directly orders his Minister of Housing to release billions as early as Monday for a real estate entrepreneur.  This way of doing things perfectly illustrates the deep tensions that exist between political staging and the orthodoxy of public management. In a state governed by the rule of law, a president does not have a personal safe from which he can draw at will to distribute public funds. Even during a presidential injunction on a construction site, the money necessarily comes from financial mechanisms mapped out by the administration, which generally fall into three categories: The Ministry of Housing has an annual investment budget voted for the construction of social housing (such as the Bikélé or Essassa projects). Let us dare to hope that when CBON publicly barks out orders to pay 2 billion to an entrepreneur, it is merely a political acceleration of the disbursement of a sum that was already theoretically allocated to this pr...
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ALBERT ONDO OSSA SPEAK! ALBERT ONDO OSSA PARLE!

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GABON, GUNVOR, AND ASSALA! LE GABON, GUNVOR, ET ASSALA!

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English version   The acquisition of Assala Energy by the Gabonese State (via the Gabon Oil Company, GOC) in 2024 is one of the most significant economic operations of the transition led by the CTRI. Officially presented as a major act of reclaiming economic sovereignty, this transaction is under close scrutiny, particularly in Switzerland, due to its financial structuring. Gabon did not have the necessary liquidity to exercise its right of pre-emption and purchase the 75% of Assala's assets from the American fund Carlyle, a transaction estimated at over $1.3 billion, or approximately 800 billion FCFA. To close the deal, GOC turned to the Swiss trading giant Gunvor, which advanced the funds to Gabon. In exchange for this loan, the Swiss trader secured the exclusive marketing rights for the oil extracted from Assala's fields. Gabon committed to a heavy repayment mechanism, spread over 5 years, amounting to $20 million per month (approximately 12 billion FCFA monthly), payable di...
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PROPAGANDA HAS VERY SHORT LEGS! LA PROPAGANDE A DE TRÈS COURTES JAMBES!

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English version   Dear readers, for the past few days, you have certainly been witnessing a propaganda offensive by CBON, aided by sycophantic, benefits-seeking spin doctors. The popular idiom stating that "propaganda has short legs" is a simple metaphor: a creature with short legs can run very fast at first, but it quickly runs out of breath, cannot overcome major obstacles, and is swiftly caught up. In politics, this means that fact manipulation and hyper-communication can saturate the media landscape in the short term, but they inevitably collapse when confronted with reality. An analysis of CBON's communication strategy highlights why this all-out, multi-directional method shows its limits in the long run. Mass communication and political propaganda rely on psychological mechanisms that wear out over time. By dint of seeing the same message and the same face everywhere, state media, social networks, billboards, the human brain develops a form of saturation. What was o...
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