{"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":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mYFK-2L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}