Niger coup: Is France to blame for instability in West Africa?
Niger coup: Is France to blame for instability in West Africa?
The recent wave of military takeovers have all been in former French colonies - is this a coincidence?
Interesting; I follow a motovlogger (Itchy Boots), and she is currently travelling across many African countries. After a while my wife and I noticed that there was a clear tendency of countries where she spoke French being the dirtiest, poorest, having the worst infrastructure and corruption.
Same with Haiti (French colony) vs Dominican Republic (Spanish colony).
Way to go, France!
Compared to Haiti, every country in Latin America is like paradise (fuck, some of the most racist comments I've heard came from Latin Americans talking about Haitian immigrants in their countries)
That's sad. I hope these comments are not from fellow Brazilians.
The comparison with the Dominican Republic is even more emblematic, because they started as equals (same island, divided between France an Spain in 1697). There has been no charitable colonizer, but there really seems to be a trend of France being the worst.
Is there a "colonizer" rank, ordered by average HDI of colonized countries?
My guess would be England, Spain, Portugal, then France far behind. (only the longest colonization period counts)
Edit: I found this: https://www.nber.org/papers/w12546
It is based only on islands though (which includes Hispañola - Haiti/Dominican).
At least for islands, despite the huge GDP gap in Hispañola, the study ranks France above Spain and Portugal!
That's a cool channel, thanks!
This is truly some cheap geopolitical analysis, the article attempts to redeem itself towards the but, Jesus, talk about clickbait. They're literally reducing half of a continent to a monolith, disregarding the specific reality and conditions of the individual countries. Africa is indeed a country for the BBC, it appears.