Spectacles of perpetual destruction

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Jean-Baptiste Placca, columnist at RFI, in 2020. Pierre René-Worms

By: Jean-Baptiste Placca

8 min

Why then, instead of serving to build the future of nations, alliances between parties and political figures, in our Africa, are they so often formed to destroy adversaries who, yesterday, were allies, and will become so again tomorrow, to serve to destroy other adversaries, themselves old friends? 

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It may only be a cry from the heart.

What could, moreover, easily take over for themselves, many citizens of other States, especially in this French-speaking Africa which concentrates so many disconcerting excesses, suitable, precisely, to trigger such reactions.

In the first sense of the term, he was probably referring to a lack of seriousness on the part of the politicians he indexes.

We feel disillusioned, faced with the propensity of political leaders to violate their commitments, once in power, and to adjust the rules of the democratic game to their moods, never to be upset.

By constantly reducing everything to their current interests, politicians can, indeed, annoy to such an extent.

At one point or another in the rather turbulent history of Côte d'Ivoire, all those who, from Abidjan to Brussels, oppose or ally themselves today, have found themselves in coalitions, some against each other, with each other ... And how many camps, how many clans have formed or clashed over the past thirty years to ultimately ruin the destiny of this land of hope, which Félix Houphouët-Boigny liked to present as the showcase of the best that cooperation with France could offer in Africa!

What are these camps and these clans

We knew Soro, a student, under the influence of a mentor named Gbagbo, making life difficult for Bédié, president.

Gbagbo and Ouattara then allied to fight Bédié, in power.

Ouattara fiercely opposed Gbagbo, president.

Ouattara and Soro, united in a rebellion, to destabilize the power of Gbagbo, Côte d'Ivoire with it.

Ouattara and Soro together waged a war, a real one, on Gbagbo.

Ouattara, Bédié and Soro held the siege, facing Gbagbo, whom they will eventually dislodge from the presidency of the Republic.

Ouattara, president finally, allied with Bédié, and even canonized him, by distinguishing him like the “Ivorian Nyerere”, and it is not nothing!

Together, Ouattara, Bédié and Soro, Prime Minister, will agree to send Gbagbo to the ICC.

Where some, among them, would not have been pale in the box of the accused, according to more than one.

And, ten years later, we find Bédié, Gbagbo, Soro, Afi Nguessan, the heirs of Robert Guéi, the related and allied families united against Ouattara, whom everyone claimed to know well.

And yet, they still let themselves be taken, and even locked up twice, at home.  

Should we conclude that they are really jokers?

If this is not a joke, it is, at the very least, a little comedy.

And we would almost laugh about it if, behind this distressing spectacle, the distress of a people did not play out, who imagined themselves first in the class, and discovered themselves not so different from the dunces, begging for a buoy rescue an embarrassed international community which, in its proverbial hypocrisy, calls for dialogue, exhorts, impersonally for moderation.

In this bad show, we are desperately looking for the good ones.

Sometimes it suffices to cross the border, to find, living an identical nightmare, with equally bad scenarios, another people, other politicians!

Here or there, it is necessary to fear that, being able no longer, the spectators, one day soon, will enter the scene, to demand to be reimbursed.

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