Ali Bongo, the new, very corrupt Life President of Gabon (as we know a favorite destination of Newsweek’s editors and Jay Z) was in Washington D.C. last week to meet the leader of the free world. Bongo is quite corrupt, the country is run like a police state and has been led by a Bongo for […]
Stephen Smith, the former African editor of Le Monde, writes in the London Review of Books (a publication not known for its sober coverage of Africa) that “Francafrique”–the corrupt French-African alliance with its strongmen (like the life president of Congo Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso, writing shotgun with Nicolas Sarkozy in the picture above), arm sales […]
