Senegal's youngest presidential candidate wants to cut colon

[anansi]

Senegal's youngest presidential candidate wants to cut colonial-era ties with France.
[ Young candidate Ousmane Sonko is challenging incumbent Macky Sall
Sonko has energized young supporters and has pledged to end use of the CFA Franc]

[With the economy in robust shape, Senegal's President Macky Sall might have anticipated a cruise to victory in his re-election campaign in the country's Sunday elections.]

[ The incumbent has overseen a period of healthy growth and delivered several landmark infrastructure projects, including highways, train lines, and a new international airport.]

[Much of this development work has been underwritten by Chinese investment, which totals over over $1.6 billion, according to China's ambassador to Senegal Zhang Xun.]

[Sall, 57, benefits from a more substantial campaign infrastructure than his rivals and has stated his expectation of a convincing victory.]

[A poll published in November put him on more than 45 percent of the vote - a clear lead over his rivals.

Another advantage for the incumbent is that two of his major challengers have been removed from contention.]
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/22/africa/senegal-election-sonko/index.html#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s

All I can say is what took you guys so long!! hope this starts a trend.

[zarahan]

Look like the young challenger has some heavy lifting to do to overcome the entrenched incumbent.
An old story indeed..

"Another advantage for the incumbent is that two of his major challengers have been removed from contention."

^^Well isn't this convenient! lol


One of Sonko's most striking policies is to replace the CFA franc with a domestic currency.

^^A legit idea worth exploring if he can design and maintain a stable alternative framework. In some
countries they failed to keep stability and let the printing presses run, touching off massive inflation
and devevaluation.

The candidate has some expertise in the field having written a book titled "Solutions" which excoriates the government for failing to secure a better deal for Senegalese resources.

I agree with the guy. As far as the CHinese, they are providing investment, but much is in the
form of loans, that have to be repaid, and of course, the infrastructure is built using mostly Chinese
machinery, some materials and men, not to mention the advantageous resource concessions they
are extracting, as in other parts of Africa. Since much is CHinese built, spare parts and
key maintenance remains in Chinese hands over the later years- another sweet lock-in revenue
stream for them. This keeps China's employment stats up, and cheap resource inflows streaming
into China. A great deal for them, and nothing wrong with profits- they ain't running a charity,
but Africans need to get these deals on better terms. This includes the other multinationals.
How many deals are being cut in backrooms where resources are being auctioned off cheaply,
where its mainly the elites getting paid, with chump change trickle down for the masses..


Hell even India is scooping up fertile farmland in Ethiopia while displacing the small African farmer..
www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/feb/07/india-investors-forcing-ethiopians-off-land

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

Senegal will never cut French ties, never.
Believe you me, Senegalese love French cuisine!

Feb 23, 2019 6:23:04 GMT -5 anansi said:

All I can say is what took you guys so long!! hope this starts a trend.

Glass houses?

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says judges in Westminster should not be final arbiters on Jamaican court cases


The judicial committee of the privy council in London, staffed by judges from the UK's supreme court, still considers appeals, including those involving capital punishment, from a number of Caribbean states and former colonies.

Feb 23, 2019 9:07:21 GMT -5 zarahan said:

CHinese are providing investment, but much is in the form of
• loans, that have to be repaid, and of course,
• the infrastructure is built using mostly Chinese machinery, some materials and men, not to mention
• the advantageous resource concessions they are extracting, as in other parts of Africa.

Since much is CHinese built, spare parts and key maintenance remains in Chinese hands over the later years- another sweet lock-in revenue stream for them.

nothing wrong with profits-



How many deals are being cut in backrooms where resources are being auctioned off cheaply,
where its mainly the elites getting paid, with chump change trickle down for the masses..

After 800 years of this type corruption I begin to wonder if it's genetic.

"Unions" and "people's 'revolution" seem beyond many inner African states.

What matter if IndoEuropeans, Semitics, SinoTibetans, or IndoIranian/Dravidian?
Which are teaching the countries how to do these things themselves?
Who's attaching engineering and technology training back in the foreign benefactor's country to the deal?
Underdevelopment is underdevelopment no matter if crepe, falafel, dimsum, or samosa flavored.
Until citizens hold officials responsible nations will never get paid for natural resources some of which are strategic minerals 21st century technology can't do without.


How frustrating it is to all the western university African students of the 1970's who learned the strategic important of their countries' natural resources and still can't get fair market value today 40 years later.

www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=012702;p=2#000103
Don't know if I posted this eye opener here before

Stealing Africa www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNYemuiAOfU

Dwnld & watch @ leisure later

[anansi]

Al-takuri said:[ Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says judges in Westminster should not be final arbiters on Jamaican court cases


The judicial committee of the privy council in London, staffed by judges from the UK's supreme court, still considers appeals, including those involving capital punishment, from a number of Caribbean states and former colonies.]

Well yeah, they passed up a great chance to rid themselves of that ingrown toenail some yrs ago, I'm sure I had a post around here somewhere about it, but the charm offensive by prince Harry hanging out with Usain Bolt and some community leaders kinda pour cold on that movement regrettably.

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

Who is Al-takuri???
Let's keep the r in Takruri.


Events of today become the history of tomorrow.

15 30 45 60 75 90 105 120
Some of my thinking has revised in this latest 15 yr stage of my staying alive.


Good or bad happy or sad
colonial legacies aren't mists that with time dissolve.

Links between the afrikans and the west eurasians are forged into an everlengthening chain, whether at home or abroad.

Their hegemony vs our autonomy, with less of the former and more of the latter, is the quest of all sovereign Afrikan nations.
We are free of direct colonization.
None of us will ever be free of west eurasian ties
if only because of our 20th & 21st century contributions to modern west eurasian history and civilization.
None of us have a general population that isn't day to day human nonsense loving and unconcerned with political or identity issues until personally affected.

None of our countries (Caribbe nor Continental) are in any position to take pot shots across the Atlantic at another.
Example
2013 Jamaica got rid of powdered wigs but still defers to the UK.
Nigeria keeps the stupid wigs and has deferred no higher decisions to the UK since independence.

As funny as Nigerians look in perukes
Hong Kong chinese love wearing them too.
Both peoples think this reminder of a colonial past are cool legal high fashion.
They really get off on the look
or
know their people see real gunboat backed type power and authority when they see those wiggies.

colonial man -- colonial mind
post-colonial man -- post-colonial mind
independent man -- independent mind

Most of us are at 1
Many have moved on to 2
Few attain 3


Nigeria has traditional, common, and Islamic legal structures alongside adopted British law.


Interesting article on it seen thru Euro eyes www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/20/60-years-later-are-colonial-era-laws-holding-africa-back/?utm_term=.dcd068fd83de

Feb 24, 2019 1:49:38 GMT -5 anansi said:

Al-takuri said:[ Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says judges in Westminster should not be final arbiters on Jamaican court cases


The judicial committee of the privy council in London, staffed by judges from the UK's supreme court, still considers appeals, including those involving capital punishment, from a number of Caribbean states and former colonies.]

Well yeah, they passed up a great chance to rid themselves of that ingrown toenail some yrs ago, I'm sure I had a post around here somewhere about it, but the charm offensive by prince Harry hanging out with Usain Bolt and some community leaders kinda pour cold on that movement regrettably.