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tonytony208:
You cannot read Isis because you are not reading between the lines.

Well, the issues being discussed here predate the emergence of ISIS by at least 60 years. I don't think anyone should link this topic, which mainly discusses France's strangulation of African countries, to ISIS.

TonySpike:
Well, the issues being discussed here predate the emergence of ISIS by at least 60 years. I don't think anyone should link this topic, which mainly discusses France's strangulation of African countries, to ISIS.

It happens that this "issue being discussed here" only came out few days after Isis bombed France.

Some things are too coincidental to be accidental.

tonytony208:
It happens that this "issue being discussed here" only came out few days after Isis bombed France.

Some things are too coincidental to be accidental.

I have found an older link of this article which was first published online on January 28th, 2014.

http://www.siliconafrica.com/france-colonial-tax/

Now, what were you saying about this article being related to the recent attacks in France?

TonySpike:
I have found an older link of this article which was first published online on January 28th, 2014.

http://www.siliconafrica.com/france-colonial-tax/

Now, what were you saying about this article being related to the recent attacks in France?

Why didn't you post in naira land when you first saw it 23 months ago?

Why are you just posting it here now?

And how come your timing correlates with the Paris bombing?

France is a wicked colonialist.

I didn't pity them when the monsters they jointly created bombed their cities.


Those African leaders need to bring back their moneys from france and damn the consequences. This is nothing but exploitation re-loaded.

Too bad.

TonySpike:
God bless the British Colonialist. At least, they thought it fit not to burden the colonies they granted independence like France. Now, I know why many French Musical stars never succeed until they go to France!

"God" destroy the bastard British Colonialists.

tonytony208:
Why didn't you post in naira land when you first saw it 23 months ago?

Why are you just posting it here now?

And how come your timing correlates with the Paris bombing?

Dude, I am not the poster of this article. Kindly direct this question to the actual OP.

TonySpike:
Dude, I am not the poster of this article. Kindly direct this question to the actual OP.

So, you never even knew anything about what you were defending all along? Dude na waaa o!

TonySpike:
On a scale of 1 to 10, I would score the British 6/10 for giving their former colonies some sort of freedom, independence, intellectualism and Human Capital Development. It was during their era Africa trained some of her brightest minds. However, I will abysmally score France 2/10, they are a good example of bad colonialists. A good colonialist should give at most 60% back to their territories. France gave less than 15% back to her territories in my humble opinion.

CC. shymm3x
9jacrip
Seun

You've said it all egbon.

French colonization was more of creating an extension of France itself.

Making French out of Africans.

I believe, despite the acclaimed decolonization, the process itself was more of British disengaging from its colonies. For France it is different, it has its hand in the pot of the affairs of all its colonies till date which in turn contributes to their underdevelopment but don't these francophone countries enjoy it? At least they get French citizenship in return

TonySpike:
On a scale of 1 to 10, I would score the British 6/10 for giving their former colonies some sort of freedom, independence, intellectualism and Human Capital Development. It was during their era Africa trained some of her brightest minds. However, I will abysmally score France 2/10, they are a good example of bad colonialists. A good colonialist should give at most 60% back to their territories. France gave less than 15% back to her territories in my humble opinion.

CC. shymm3x
9jacrip
S3un

I think the case of the British Empire is somewhat different from France. France was never destroyed during the 2nd world war, so the country had a lot of things intact, hence it was able to maintain its colonies after the war and none of them got full "independence", apart from Algeria. And Algeria got its via a brutal revolution.

With Britain, the whole country was almost completed destroyed by the Nazis. After the war, when it was time to rebuild the country - Clement Atlee saw that the best way to rebuild the country and move it to the modern era since its empire status had already collapsed, was to reduce British power and influence, by giving the colonies freedom, albeit replacing the empire with commonwealth of nation. Thus keeping the alliance intact. And that the priority should be catering to the needs of the British people who were devastated by the war.

So, I won't say the British empire was different from colonial France, albeit the French absorption policy somewhat takes France down a bit. Necessity vs luxury. However, the absorption policy alone created a lot of great black minds and academics - gift and curse. But you can't compare either of them to the Belgians. The Belgians were the worst and the most devilish neanderthals ever.

TonySpike:
Dude, I am not the poster of this article. Kindly direct this question to the actual OP.

Thanks for your intellectual discourse TonySpike. It's people like you that I look forward to interacting with on Nairaland. Short of resorting to usage of negative language, I intentionally left the poster you were trying to educate to his fate. Some people are so narrow minded that they lack the capacity to engage different issues without allowing those issues to infect them.