by Peter Koenig, Global Research:
There is little doubt today that Africa will be the world’s future. The continent holds currently an estimated 60% of all non-renewable natural resources. By 2050 a quarter of Mother Earth’s population is projected to live in Africa, about 2.5 billion, out of a total projected world population of close to 10 billion.
Today, Africa is closer than ever to begin a serious and permanent unification movement. It is not happening overnight, but it has already begun. The former West and Central African French Colonies, and by any interpretation remaining economic colonies of France as of this day, have started years ago to send French military troop home, and to work on liberating themselves from the French enslavement through their imposed currency of the Franc CFA.
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CFA stands for Communauté Financière Africaine (African Financial Community) in West Africa and Coopération Financière en Afrique Centrale (Financial Cooperation in Central Africa) in Central Africa. It refers to the CFA franc, a joint currency used by 14 African former French colonial nations – which is to this day are controlled and monitored by the Banque de France, the French Central Bank.
New “French” African leaders are vouching to distance their countries from the French hegemon. Among them is Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who has served as the transitional head of state since taking power in September 2022; in Mali, General Assimi Goïta is the current president, a military officer, who first took power following a coup in 2020 and has served as the leader of the transitional government; in Niger, Army General Abdourahamane Tchiani, who took power as the head of a military junta after a coup in July 2023, and was officially sworn in as the country’s president for a five-year transitional period.
Image: Pan-African flag (Public Domain)
Another is Captain Thomas Sankara, also from Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta), who took over in a military coup; a brilliant personality, often called the Ché Guevara of Africa, whose agenda was visionary and Pan-African (see Pan-African flag) – clearly a threat to the West African French colonizers. He was assassinated in 1987 at the orders of then French President François Mitterrand.
Pan-African (or Panafrican) refers to a global movement and ideology that aims to unite all people of African descent and promote solidarity among African nations. It is rooted in the belief that people of African heritage share a common history and a unified destiny.
Not to forget Muammar Gadafi, who had a serious plan to free Africa with the Gold Dinar from the financial hegemony of the West. He was assassinated on 20 October 2011 by French NATO troops, ordered by the very French President Sarkozy, whom Gaddafi financially supported earlier to win the May 2007 French presidential elections.
We all remember, how on 20 October 2011, when Gaddafi was atrociously lynched, then US Secretary of State under Obama, Hillary Clinton, cheered with a horrifying laugh, among a group of her associates,
“We came, we saw, he died.”
These are just a few examples, in a trend that marks how West and Central Africa, but also Africa as an entire continent, is constantly besieged by the west, so the Great Africa may not be truly free. This may change as China and Russia created the extended BRICS with now also associated BRICS members – and eventually what is called the Global South.
Of the current 11 extended BRICS members, three are African (South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia), they were joined in 2025 by three African partners or associated nations (Algeria, Nigeria and Uganda). They enjoy the same free trade benefits as well as the advantage of trading in local currencies, or currencies of their choice, but not the sanction-prone US dollar.
Despite these above-mentioned geopolitical attempts to stop Africa’s pursuit of freedom, true independence and especially financial and economic sovereignty, Africa is destined to grow. And grow she will.
