{"id":171,"date":"2009-06-12T20:06:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T20:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-02-23T18:38:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T23:38:43","slug":"mr-francafrique-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2009\/06\/mr-francafrique-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Fran\u00e7afrique 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/375d858_0.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"170\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2009\/06\/mr-francafrique-1973\/375d858_0\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/375d858_0.jpg?fit=230%2C291\" data-orig-size=\"230,291\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"375d858_0\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/375d858_0.jpg?fit=230%2C291\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/375d858_0.jpg?fit=230%2C291\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-170\" title=\"375d858_0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/375d858_0.jpg?resize=230%2C291\" alt=\"relaxing at home \" width=\"230\" height=\"291\" align=\"left\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>This one image sums up the &#8212; still &#8212; late <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Omar Bongo\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omar_Bongo\">Omar Bongo<\/a> Ondimba better than any words could.  If you want to see where the postcolonials learned their tricks, look to their models.  Omar Bongo (n\u00e9e Albert-Bernard Bongo) was <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"French language\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_language\">French<\/a> through and through, like <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand\">Mitterrand<\/a> with a sense of style, or like a shorter <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F%C3%A9lix_Houphou%C3%ABt-Boigny\">F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny<\/a> with more oil and a better car.<\/p>\n<p><!--\nhttp:\/\/www.adireafricantextiles.com\/Pagne07.htm\n\nhttp:\/\/www.lepoint.fr\/actualites-politique\/2009-06-09\/le-deces-de-bongo-relance-le-debat-sur-la-francafrique\/917\/0\/350946\n\nhttp:\/\/www.lematin.ch\/flash-info\/monde\/jacques-chirac-dement-beneficie-soutien-financier-omar-bongo-1981\n\nhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8088399.stm\n\nhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8056309.stm Murky World of Omar Bongo\n\nhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8056309.stm  Having a laugh with Omar Bongo\n\nhttp:\/\/www.madle.org\/egabon.htm This Stutz Royale Limousine\n\nhttp:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/actuen\/articles\/114\/article_3986.asp Who will get Bongo's cash?\n\nhttp:\/\/globalsociology.edublogs.org\/2009\/06\/09\/the-end-of-francafrique-one-can-only-hope-so\/\n\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neocolonialism\n\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fran%C3%A7afrique\n\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Foccart\n\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Denard\n--><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/africaunchained.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/africas-becoming-more-despotic-and.html\">Africa&#8217;s Becoming more Despotic and Nepotistic<\/a> (africaunchained.blogspot.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www10.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/15\/world\/africa\/15libreville.html%3F_r%3D5%26partner%3Drss%26emc%3Drss&amp;a=7652331&amp;rid=7c693c3f-35aa-4025-9f9c-555732ef68eb&amp;e=ba0199edc920275f796c3f927b824952\">Libreville Journal: Underneath Palatial Skin, Corruption Rules Gabon<\/a> (nytimes.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8280079.stm&amp;a=8084564&amp;rid=7c693c3f-35aa-4025-9f9c-555732ef68eb&amp;e=b7bedc7b16dbc85d5a36d82e4a9412be\">Gabon to recount &#8216;rigged&#8217; poll<\/a> (news.bbc.co.uk)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/7c693c3f-35aa-4025-9f9c-555732ef68eb\/\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=560\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one image sums up the &#8212; still &#8212; late Omar Bongo Ondimba better than any words could. If you want to see where the postcolonials learned their tricks, look to their models. Omar Bongo (n\u00e9e Albert-Bernard Bongo) was French&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2009\/06\/mr-francafrique-1973\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[75,106,26,23],"tags":[151,150,147,149,148],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1004,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/francafrique-french-fbi-ran-the-malian-aqim-prisoner-release\/","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":0},"title":"Francafrique: French &#8220;FBI&#8221; ran the Malian AQIM prisoner release","date":"April 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Intelligence Online\" reports that the French internal security agency, the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Int\u00e9rieur (DCRI) carried out the negotiation with the AQIM for the release of French hostage Pierre Camatte, and sent Bernard...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2039,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2013\/10\/pagne-peace-dialogue-and-houphouet-boigny-c-1965\/","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":1},"title":"Pagne: Peace, Dialogue, and Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny c.1965","date":"October 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This early 1960s portrait of President of Cote d'Ivoire F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny uses a mix of appeals to French and Ivorian authority. 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