"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

 

      English version   One of the very first Gabonese pharmacologists has just died in Morocco, Jean-Noël Gassita. His main scientific contribution is his important work on this exclusively Gabonese and so mysterious plant called Iboga.   The elders are leaving, the saddest thing is that often, in Gabon, unfortunately those who replace them are often featherweights. Let's live up to our predecessors!   May the land of his ancestors be light on him!         Version française   Un des tout premiers pharmacologues Gabonais vient de disparaitre au Maroc, Jean-Noël Gassita. Sa principale contribution scientifique aura été ses importants travaux sur cette plante exclusivement gabonaise et oh combien mystérieuse appelée Iboga.   Les anciens s’en vont, le plus triste est que souvent, au Gabon, malheureusement ceux qui les remplacent sont souvent des poids plumes. Soyons a la hauteur de nos prédé...

      English version     L’Union is the Gabonese governmental journal. It is a bastion of censorship and a defender of lies and corruption. This is a useless journal that most Gabonese only read to find out who has died among the people they may know.   An interview given by such an abject individual as Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo would always be clearly a disingenuous exercise. Who can in their right mind, expect this lady to tell the truth about anything? This interview was not done with the intent to enlighten the readers about anything, but to present someone who deserves to be in jail as a responsible civil servant.   It is because of people like Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo that the Gabonese people have lost their belief is the most fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions and freely elect their leaders.   Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo has not allowed competin...

      English version   For a society to flourish all must be done to provide the highest quality of education to the entire population. There is no alternative to that truth!   All great scholars, from Nobel laureates to contributors to the scaling of every laudable area of intellectual endeavor, from math to science of every kind; from humanities; philosophy, to the arts, at the beginning had their minds and confidence opened by a teacher.   There is no singular better or more important investment in any society, than a quality education to awaken the sublimating abilities in every citizen. Moreover, there is no surgeon, scientists, writers, economists, nor astrophysicist, geneticists, etc., that did not have a legion of teachers behind them, first giving them their wings to fly.   Educators should be well paid professionals in our society as they are the inspirators to anyone stepping into the light of education for the produ...

 

 

      English version   There is supposed to be a presidential election in Gabon in 2023. As a result, we can already witness that many members of the opposition who have no chance to win this election and have been quiet for the past decade, are now announcing their candidacy to that presidential election.   Dear readers, every dictatorship will kill and destroy everything that may threaten its power. It will destroy activists, politicians, and every citizen that can end its rule. But for all its repression, history tells us that every dictatorship is doomed to fail.   dictatorship is doomed to fail everywhere and every time it is tried, because it fails to take into account an important truth of human nature: the yearning for every person to be independent and free.   On average, democracies outperform dictatorships in terms of long-term social and economic growth as well social, economic and political stability. The only dict...

 

    English version   Mr Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze, you are an idiot, because you do not even know that in a democracy, one of the cornerstones of this system remains that every citizen has the right to hold   accountable any public official of his administration.   So, you have to be accountable to any Gabonese, even those who don't have your supposed legitimacy. A citizen remains a citizen, that is to say, your boss. A little respect for Gabonese citizens!       Version française   Monsieur Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze, vous êtes un piètre idiot, car vous ne savez même pas qu’en démocratie, l’une des pierres angulaires de ce système reste que tout citoyen ait le droit de demander des comptes à tout agent public de son administration.   Vous devez donc rendre des comptes à n’importe quel Gabonais, même ceux qui n’ont pas votre supposée légitimité. Un citoyen reste un citoyen, c’est-à-dire votre patron. Un peu ...

    English version   The majority of artifacts in Western museums and private collections were obtained through looting during colonial times. This looting of African objects by western colonial administrators, soldiers, anthropologists, curators and ultimately private collectors, was justified as an act of benevolence; as westerners saving primitive knowledge, dying knowledge. In other words, they were doing us a service by looting us.   Today, many museums have started timidly to acknowledge that their collections have uncomfortable histories tied to colonial abuse. Nevertheless, these objects are continuing to be the subject of a very lucrative commerce, valued at billions of euros.   Dear readers, appreciate the irony: objects that the colonizers said represented superstitious beliefs, and inferior cultures, are now valued a billion of euros.   Many Europeans and unfortunately some Africans, are arguing against returning these objects...