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Dec 26 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
In the 70s dictator Eyadema of #Togo, soldier of the #French colonial army appointed a minister of education called Sylvain Babelem. Babelem was removed, later arrested and charged with corruption for one thing. He defied Eyadema’s bosses: the French government.
During a ceremony held by the French embassy to donate school books to #Togo , Minister Babelem who use to be teacher denounced the fact #France was donating books they’ve removed from the French curriculum to #Togo especially the fact that these books embellished colonialism.
The #French delegation was not pleased with the #Togolese minister questioning their act of “charity” and called his boss dictator Eyadema to complain. Babelem was removed as minister of education of #Togo and that was just the beginning of his ordeals with the neocolonial regime
Mr Babelem was then wrongfully accused of corruption, arrested and tortured in detention. He seriously got ill and died a few months after his release from prison. All because he believed Togolese students deserve better school books.

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Dec 26
France has the 4th largest gold reserve in the world. How?
France holds 90% of the gold reserves of 15 African countries and pays 0% interest on what it makes from those reserves since 1945. These nations however borrow from #France from their own reserves with interest!
When #France created the CFA which was inspired by the monetary system the Nazi imposed on #France during WW2, the FCFA parity was at 50 to one French Franc. On 12 January 1994 #France had the IMF devalue it by 50%: we woke up twice poorer and indebted to #France!
The arguments some are giving to justify the cruelty of the #French colonial empire in #Africa are laughable. Stating that our gold reserves are safer in #France: what a joke!
What do you call safety when the French government assassinate our presidents who ask for our gold back?
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Oct 17
The structure of families in Africa are completely different from the Eurocentric version we are taught in colonial school.
In #Togo for most ethnic groups, the word cousin doesn’t exist at all. The paternal cousins are our siblings and the maternal ones are our uncles.
In our culture, siblings aren’t limited to the children of your parents. The children of your mother’s sisters and those of your father’s brothers are your siblings. Now all the males in your mother’s family are your uncles and all the females your father’s side are your aunts.
In many of these cultures, you only inherit from your mother’s brothers ( uncles) as it is believed that you can only guarantee the maternity of a child, not the paternity. Your mothers’ brothers are more legitimate than your father.
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May 21, 2021
In July 1987, one African president bravely asked that all African countries unite against colonial debts. He mentioned that his initiative could get him killed and indeed three months later, he was assassinated on the orders of France: Thomas #Sankara
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On July 29,1987 Thomas #Sankara, president of Burlington Faso delivered a vibrant speech at the OAU Summit calling all African leaders to demand debt cancelation from colonial powers to put an end to the plundering of African nations in the repayment of colonial debts.
“We think that debt has to be seen from the perspective of its origins. Debt’s origins come from colonialism’s origins. Those who lend us money are those who colonized us. They are the same ones who used to manage our states and economies. “ Thomas Sankara
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Jan 12, 2019
I will make a thread on why I am against the electoral putsch in #DRC and why I am worried for this country that has never known a democratic transition since independence.
Let me start with a disclaimer : I don’t like France. No rather I hate France. I have never hidden it and this will not change even after my death because it is personal. France hurt me , physically , psychologically, emotionally , financially by imposing a savage regime in #Togo
This said, may you all know that I don’t give a jack about #France and it’s mate Belgium which did worse in the #DRC than #France did in #Togo where we still have memories of White French soldiers descending on the streets along with our soldiers to repress us during protests.
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