Peter Mitolo
Following broad rejections and growing anti-French sentiments across Africa, French President Emmanuel Macron is targeting Kenya with a Summit in what analysts described as a ‘last kick of a dying horse’.
The one-time colonial power with no permanent presence in either West or Central Africa is scheduled to attend the French-Africa Summit themed Africa Forward in May, the first summit with English-speaking African countries.
France is participating in this year’s Africa–France Summit not as a powerful partner any longer, but as a country that is fast losing its foothold in Africa. Its control on the continent is diminishing — especially in the Sahel — and it has little legitimacy in today’s Africa.
“France’s pretty prose of ‘mutual cooperation’ and ‘shared development’ no longer hides its ruthless ambition to partner with Africa solely for resource extraction and geopolitical presence. There is little respect for Africa’s sovereignty.”
“France is desperately trying
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