Rising South Fells Empire

Francophone Africa Makes News in the West

Global South 

As of 2022, seventy-eight countries (Afghanistan to Zimbabwe) made the World Population Review (and United Nations’) list of “Global South” countries https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/global-south-countries

Francophone Africa Alphabetically

1.   Benin 2.   Burkina Faso 3.   Burundi 4.   Cameroon 5.   Central African Republic

6.   Chad 7.   Comoros 8.   Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 9.   Congo (Republic of the) 10.            Djibouti

11.            Equatorial Guinea 12.            Gabon 13.            Guinea 14.            Ivory Coast (Republic of Côte d’Ivoire) 15.            Madagascar

16.            Mali 17.            Niger 18.            Rwanda 19.            Senegal 20.            Seychelles 21.            Togo

WeAfrique “List Of (21) Francophone Countries in Africa,” by Tim Dajin, September 29, 2022, https://weafrique.com/francophone-countries-in-africa/

“Economic dependence has contributed to perpetuating a system wherein African states remain weak, pliant, and reliant on resource exports. Primary beneficiaries are French companies and French interests. And African states— their national sovereignty further eroded —are obliged to “ally” with France [DITTO Empire USA, UK, et.al] in any major conflict….” Columnist Brad Pearce writes in an August 8, 2023, posting at The Cradle.

The Continent of Africa “suffers many ailments…, perhaps the most persistent and nefarious (of these) are the lack of sovereignty and access to capital” — while much of Europe’s prosperity, for centuries, has derived from Europeans’ looting of countries of the Global South.

The linguistic maneuver “Global South” is a relatively contemporary, post-World War II, euphemism for widely-used historic terms colonial (today’s neocolonial) 

“possessions” or “territories;” “less developed,” “developing” “non-Western,” “poor,” “third” (or fourth), “undeveloped,” “undeveloped” countries or world.

Included in the Global South construct coined by forceful nuclear powers are these. 

• The entire Continent of Africa
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• The Continent of Asia particularly countries conveniently mapped or remapped, divided, redrawn, grouped and regrouped, defined or redefined, often war-ravaged by Western powers and their “allies” and termed “Near East,” “Middle East,” “West/Southwest Asia;” “developing” countries. (Further reference)

Countries Developing 

Among them though not usually considered 

Global South Countries

Labeled “Developing Economies” 

International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook Database (Update April 2023)

Afghanistan	Cameroon
Albania	Cape Verde
Algeria	Central African Republic
Angola	Chad
Antigua and Barbuda	China
Argentina	Chile
Armenia	Colombia
Azerbaijan	Comoros
Bahamas	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bahrain	Republic of the Congo
Bangladesh	Costa Rica
Barbados	Côte d'Ivoire
Belarus	Djibouti
Belize	Dominica
Benin	Dominican Republic
Bhutan	Ecuador
Bolivia	Egypt
Bosnia and Herzegovina	El Salvador
Botswana	Equatorial Guinea
Brazil	Eritrea
Brunei	Eswatini (Swaziland)
Bulgaria	Ethiopia
Burkina Faso	Fiji
Burundi	Gabon
Cambodia	The Gambia

Ghana Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary India Indonesia Iran Iraq Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya

Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Federated States of Micronesia Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Macedonia Oman Pakistan Palau

Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Poland Philippines Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saudi Arabia Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Sudan

Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

 

The columnist resumes.

“France never stopped looting Africa (but) now the tables are turning.”

Developments in West Africa demonstrate that “the francophone countries are no longer willing to accept French neo-colonialism.” The fear factor has been removed and “Africa’s quest for genuine independence is steadily coming to fruition.”

Pearce, Brad, “The 26 July coup in the West African nation of Niger…, threatening to undermine French and US military presence in the region, has shed light on the historical exploitation and continued practices of Françafrique—the term used to describe the persistent exploitation by the former French Empire in Africa.”

France’s neocolonialism

“France-Afrique” was coined in 1955 by the President of Côte d’Ivoire to convey his country’s “close ties with France.”

La “Françafrique” was coined in 1998 by French economist and historian François-Xavier Verschave as a parody of the West African leader’s usage and to reflect “a specific type of neocolonialism” imposed by France on former colonies of the French Empire. His was a “criticism of alleged corrupt and clandestine activities of various Franco-African political, economic and military networks” (reference source).

“France never stopped looting Africa,” Pearce wrote.

https://new.thecradle.co/articles/france-never-stopped-looting-africa-now-the-tables-are-turning
Brad Pearce is creator and principal columnist of “The Wayward Rabbler.”

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