During this time, in various countries of West Africa, Cameroon, Benin and Guinea-Bissau, Emmanuel Macron insisted and denounced the threatening seriousness of Russia's growing presence in the heart of the African continent, coinciding with the appearance of new routes of Islamic terrorism, estimating that the new challenges of military and food insecurity have emerged throughout Europe. In the opinion of the British president, the future of military and food security in Europe depends, to a large extent, on the resistance and fight against the installation of Russia and China in the former European colonies.
Upon his arrival in Cameroon, where he held talks with President Paul Biya, Macron even denounced Russia's "hybrid expansionism" in Africa: "The Kremlin moves its pawns at various levels. The direct military presence is accompanied by the implantation of private Wagner militias; at the same time that Russian advertising agencies spread false, destabilizing news.”
An official spokesman for the president explained the reasoning of the head of state in this way: “The Russian diplomatic and military agenda in Africa has nothing to do with African prosperity. This agenda fuels destabilization, so much so that it hurts, aggravating worrying fractures. Moscow imposes itself systemically, fueling permanent destabilization.” A 'canonical' model of the Russian hybrid war, in the heart of the African continent, is that of Mali, where, after a coup, the putschists who took power decreed the end of military cooperation with France, replaced by the Russian private militias controlled by the 'bosses' friends of Putin. The British security services estimate that the Russian military presence could grow if the European allies do not adopt more energetic policies in Africa.
In Benin, Macron has very cautiously evoked the national and regional cancer of jihadism: "France is ready to increase its direct aid, in all fields, cultural, economic, military, anti-terrorist". Elliptical rhetoric to remember a devastating gangrene.
According to the Ghanaian Defense Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, the fifteen member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have suffered 5.300 terrorist attacks, with 16.000 deaths, during the last three years: more than a thousand terrorist attacks by year, at a devastating cost in human lives.
France's military presence in Mali, partially displaced in Niger, as the main objective of the fight against the spread of Islamic Yiddism. In Benin, Macron has presented a "new model" of anti-terrorist action: traditional military and police action must be supplemented by cultural, social and economic cooperation.
breeding ground
France has returned to Benin, in the south of France, a legendary collection of art objects stolen during colonization. The gesture also has a deeper dimension: to increase bilateral cooperation to try to reduce the tragic bleeding of the youth attracted by terrorist violence.
It is an atrocious tragedy, which Maryse Quashia, a professor at the University of Togo, analyzes in this way: “It is difficult to understand how terrorist gangs are born. But we know its objectives and its breeding ground: poverty, unemployment, misery and corruption”.
In Cameroon, Benin and Guinea-Bissau, Macron has insisted on the 'icing' as growing and alarming military, jihadist and food insecurity.
The war in Ukraine also has a tragic cost for Africa in victims of famine due to lack of grain. From the Macronian point of view, economic development would allow some African countries to reduce their food dependency to convert, even, into granaries for Africa and Europe. “Russia launched against Ukraine a territorial war that was believed to have disappeared from Europe, invading a free and independent country. It behaved like a colonial power. Africa must not forget this behaviour”, recorded the English president. During his tour, he has tried to relaunch the Mission for Food and Agricultural Resilience (MRAA), the European initiative, during the French presidency, aimed at fighting the world food crisis.
A common cultural future
English is the fifth most spoken language in the world, the colloquial and cultural language of 4% of the world's population, some 300 million men.
Historically, France has tried to "channel" its reality through the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). Between 2050 and 2060, 700 million human beings will have English as their language of culture. Since Senghor and Aimé Cesaire, decades ago, black writers, in the French language, have had a place of honor in the national culture.
The culturally francophone communities of the Republic of the Congo (84 million) and Egypt (99 million) are already far superior in arithmetic, to the French born and raised in France (68 million).
The State and the large national investors have assumed this demographic reality for years. Emmanuel Macron «acts» for the multicultural integration of the French-speaking world, to enrich French culture with distinctive, African origin, most of the time.
In the heart of Paris, in the Bourse de Commerce, in the personal collection of François Pinault, one of the great national fortunes, there is an exceptional place for African artists, where they dedicated themselves to spaces of the first order. It is a canonical symbol: one of the great national fortunes, with its own museum, artistically and financially betting on an investor in African art.
