"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

    English version In Gabon nothing seems to work. This blog has tried to understand what is the problem; why is it that nothing, absolutely nothing is working. We know that States don't fail overnight. The seeds of their destruction are sown deep within their political institutions. Gabon has been in decline for many decades. History shows that some countries fail spectacularly, with a total collapse of all state institutions, and the government ceasing to exist altogether. However, most countries fail not in an explosion of chaos and violence, but by being utterly unable to take advantage of their society’s huge potential for growth; by condemning their citizens to a lifetime of poverty. This is the case of Gabon, where a slow, grinding failure has left the country with living standards far, far below those that the Gabonese people deserve. In the case of Gabon, the situation is particularly tragic, because this failure is by design. The Gabonese state has practic...

 

    English version In Gabon today more than ever before, roads remain the dominant mode of passenger and freight transport, for which the need is growing rapidly. It is noticeable that Gabon does not do enough to ensure the sustainability of road infrastructure as it is obvious that Gabonese roads are affected, to varying degrees, by premature deterioration in Libreville as well as in the countries interior. Although on paper, on the national budget the spending on road maintenance has increased over time, it remains insufficient to cover the needs. Poorly maintained roads constrain mobility, significantly raise vehicle operating costs, increase accident rates and their associated human and property costs, and aggravate isolation, poverty, poor health, and illiteracy in rural communities. Nonetheless, not many Gabonese have access to an all-season road system in cities or the countryside. Road construction has not kept pace with urbanization; and therefore road main...

 

    English version Gabon has vast natural resources and a small population. Yet the country has remained very poor; why? This blog offers an analysis based on political and economic theories, to try to explain why Gabon is lagging behind. 1.        The lack of road infrastructure: over 80 percent of Gabon is covered by rain forest and is poorly accessible by roads.   It is therefore more difficult to developed commerce between the various regions of the country and to impulse a real national development. To bring goods from the interior to key markets in the cities, is extremely difficult. 2.        The lack of law and order: respect for the law is conducive to economic growth and development. If the judicial system is corrupt and cannot be trusted, there can never be any sustainable economic development. 3.        The lack of large large-scale agricultural: a diversifie...

    English version The PDG, this party-state since 1968, which has destroyed Gabon and is essentially responsible for the huge and incredible national waste that presents itself to us, is a caricature of a political party. Having failed in everything and everywhere, for 54 years, the PDG today boils down to gesticulation instead of reflection. The level of the PDG's political discourse that we hear from the Agondjé stadium is simply distressing, coming for people who have been in power for 54 years. The PDG's political offer is buried under a bunch of trivialities. This is not new, of course; except that Gabon is doing very badly and when a party in power for more than half a century comes to order the Gabonese to let it continue its work of destroying the country, the average citizen is entitled to expect to be presented with a serious and convincing political argument. Dear readers, things cannot continue as they are in our country at this time. Our collective s...

  English version   More than anything else, ignorance is what keeps Africans behind in so many ways. It is indeed ignorance that keeps us from knowing who we are and identifying with our personal circumstances. By being ignorant of our circumstances, we cannot really understand how others see us and why we are under the conditions we are experiencing. When we are ignorant, we are likely to accept anything as being normal and acceptable.     Version française   Plus que toute autre chose, l’ignorance est ce qui maintient les Africains a l’arriere, à bien des égards. C’est en effet l’ignorance qui nous empêche de savoir qui nous sommes et de nous identifier à notre situation spécifique. En ignorant les détails de nos circonstances, nous ne pouvons pas vraiment comprendre comment les autres nous voient et pourquoi nous sommes dans les conditions que nous vivons. Lorsque nous sommes ignorants, nous sommes susceptibles d’accepter n’importe quoi comme étant n...

 

      English version   One of our readers has graciously written to us, to engage in a dialogue, the content of which we want to share with you; following our post on the racism of Argentines towards black Africans. We publish the content of this dialogue below.     Our reader:   Hello   This is the first time I publish something on this blog, already I wanted to sincerely congratulate you for your pan-Africanist leanings, I should have done it long ago but ...   To come back to what leads me to write to you this morning to get straight to the point I would say that I am one of those who supported Argentina! Today many Africans no longer align themselves with France although it is filled with 80% of African negroes (according to your words) we prefer to support any other team than the France – You talk about racism, racial genocide ... What have we not seen in Western societies here is another black French deput...

      English version   Researchers at Stockholm University in Sweden have published their work demonstrating that there are 22 facial signals that can transmit external signs of serious illness to doctors.   Among the signs to identify the sick are the following:   •Abnormally dry and sagging lips, which close poorly and leak drool uncontrollably •A face that looks more swollen •More flaccid eyelids •Red, haggard and dull eyes; giving a confused, empty and intensity-free look. •A generally passive expression that gives the impression that the individual is absent; without any emotion.   Dear readers, when you look at Ali Bongo in this photo, what do you see?           Version française   Des chercheurs de l'Université de Stockholm en Suède ont publié leurs travaux démontrant qu’il y ait 22 signaux faciaux pouvaient transmettre aux médecins des signes extérieures de maladie...

      English version   For a people who call Africans “mierdas”, Argentines don't piss very far. Here is what this country is worth in a few figures:   Argentina's GDP: $445 billion (World Bank figure) Nigeria's GDP: $448 billion (World Bank figure)   Inflation in Argentina in 2022: 72.37% (World Bank figure) Inflation in Nigeria in 2022: 21% (World Bank figure)   Argentina's external debt: $394 billion (World Bank figure) Nigeria's external debt: $33.5 billion (World Bank figure)   Argentina's national airline, Aerolíneas Argentinas, has 56 aircrafts and serves 22 destinations, the majority of which are in Latin America, with only 2 in Europe and one in North America.   Ethiopian Airlines has a fleet of 100 aircraft, including the most modern in the world; serving 120 international destinations on 4 continents (Africa, Asia, America, Europe).   Argentines should not speak in front of worthy Afr...