WEST AFRICA’S REGIME CHANGES

[anansi]

THE SECRET HAND BEHIND WEST AFRICA’S REGIME CHANGES.

Armed with AK-47s, the rebels sneaked into Liberia on Christmas Eve in 1989 to overthrow the country’s President Samuel Doe. As the ensuing civil war escalated, ultimately killing 400,000 people, the world’s attention turned to rebel leader Charles Taylor, and Libya, which had trained his men. But the man whom diplomats the invasion was watching calmly from Yamoussoukro. At 84, Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouët-Boigny’s appetite for regime change hadn’t waned.
www.ozy.com/flashback/the-secret-hand-behind-west-africas-regime-changes/85920?utm_medium=SM&utm_source=OZYWOFB&utm_name=Organic

Wow! This is so tragic, pls klik the rest of the article, his motivations include the very private vendettas, and a hit man for the western powers without much prodding, this man held up as a beacon of success and good governance is responsible for lost generations of Africans decades deep, well beyond his region.

[kel]

Charles Taylor worked for CIA

[kel]

That article is motstly lies.

Its well known that most African leaders are puppets in place by Western powers.......especially the Francophone ones.

Whatever HouphetBoigny was doing, he was doing at the DIRECT behest of French and American intelligence

[zarahan]

Jun 7, 2018 6:11:15 GMT -5 anansi said:

THE SECRET HAND BEHIND WEST AFRICA’S REGIME CHANGES.

Armed with AK-47s, the rebels sneaked into Liberia on Christmas Eve in 1989 to overthrow the country’s President Samuel Doe. As the ensuing civil war escalated, ultimately killing 400,000 people, the world’s attention turned to rebel leader Charles Taylor, and Libya, which had trained his men. But the man whom diplomats the invasion was watching calmly from Yamoussoukro. At 84, Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouët-Boigny’s appetite for regime change hadn’t waned.
www.ozy.com/flashback/the-secret-hand-behind-west-africas-regime-changes/85920?utm_medium=SM&utm_source=OZYWOFB&utm_name=Organic

Wow! This is so tragic, pls klik the rest of the article, his motivations include the very private vendettas, and a hit man for the western powers without much prodding, this man held up as a beacon of success and good governance is responsible for lost generations of Africans decades deep, well beyond his region.

I lost respect for him ever since he blew tens of millions on the cathedral in his home village,
millions that could have been spent on roads, clean drinking water, anti-HIV retro-virals,
housing, new breeding livestock and new plant varieties for farmers, etc etc.
Now you say this guy was coup plotter behind the scenes as well? Comparador and collaborator
with French interests? Sheee... that's sad.

[kel]

Well he was put into power by the French for that very reason...................to do nothing at best and at worst destroy the countries's chances for long term success and create chaos for the neighbors.

Who do you think gave him the money to build a cathedral If he had wanted to use the same money for education and water would it have been given to him answer: NO.

most post independence leaders were puppets: and those who were not were quickly replaced .... like Nkrumah and Sankoma

[zarahan]

Doing nothing? Not really. Ivory COast was doing fairly well, until slumping commodity prices
and later economic stress created unrest, not to mention the restless folk arose wanting a bigger
say in the government and political process, rather than always be under the thumb of the authoritarian
one-party state of Houphouët-Boigny. It could be said also that rising prosperity created new demands
for democracy. To his credit Boigny did maintain a balancing act of sorts, and spread the cash and prosperity
around to different ethnic groups- buying a certain amount of peace and stability, though his spending
on certain projects was way over the top. Sure he was a French puppet but the did get a number
of positive things done. It seemed to have gone to his head and to close out his reign before his
death, he comes up with this giant "legacy" project that would "top" everybody else. His successors
failed to maintain the balancing act, and were too harsh with the many immigrants that helped build
Ivorian prosperity. All that money blown on the giant project would have really helped when
the economic slumps that worsened the situation hit.