hey everyone welcome to review africa with justine a show where we look back at the interaction of
the african continent its people the western world through the lands of a certified african resident
continually learning that colonialism is now our horrible relative who will never live
on this episode we'll be focusing on the assassinations of african presidents by the west
you will think african presidents are powerful and well protected but
jfks are scattered all over this continent you guys remember france's prowess in this
department some african leaders boldly stood up against the unending imperialist
tendencies of france but their resistance was generally met with a stronger contestant
death france takes its job of wielding power unnecessarily and putting the fear of the west
in african countries very seriously i'm taking a chance with my own life doing this piece so if
anything happens to me remember me as a comedian that is my legacy unfortunately france has
assassinated or helped in assassinating a total of 22 presidents since 1963. here are their names
you all know we can't talk about the west without uncle some of the red blue and white the american
cia has also dipped its feet in presidential takeouts how dare you america you really have no
willpower against minding other people's business right specifically in how the cia played a role
in congo's first elected prime minister patrice lumumba's assassination in 1958 a year after ghana
got independence the country hosted a conference of african leaders the first such gathering of
its kind and a rare sighting of african leaders you could call visionaries at the invitation of
ghana's newly elected prime minister kamen kuruma seen here brandishing his great mind and double
forehead more than 300 leaders from 28 territories across africa attended one of the attendees was
patrice lumumba of the steel belgian congo and franz fannun who was still living in still french
algeria it was a time of unlimited potential for a group of people determined to chat a new course
for their homelands and partying of course i hope some of those leaders twerked and danced
because life was going to come at them sideways like those logging trucks in final destination
while they were happy about what the future held prime minister kwame the host wanted his guests
not to forget the dangers that lay ahead because where there was once a colonizer there's always
a colonizer looking to fill the gap in 1960 the congo gained independence they were finally free
from colonial shackles for like two seconds due to congo's size position near south africans bastions
of white rule and reserves of high quality uranium at the chicolo mine in katanga province
the country soon became a target the congo was so naturally resource wealthy that the danger
sent itself a personal invite the cia conducted a series of fast-paced covert action operations in
drc the operations were meant to kill two birds with one new colonial stone by stabilizing the
government and minimizing communist influence in the country they also launched a massive
pr campaign to denounce lumumba and promote mobutu they were like hey yo check out my boy
mobutu lovable guy drive from here to kinshasa he could pass for prince of zamunda he loves music
and can do that while you're wasting you know the deal he's the best guy for the job
kruma possessed an acute understanding of the threat in his that's so raven moment because only
months after his speech lumumba was assassinated by a belgian and congolese firing squad posing
here to say that africans are always fighting back their work may not make the sexy soldier patriotic
kind of a heart movie but they are always fighting most of the times it ends like this
this assassination happened on 17th january 1961 and it was led by congolese troops in
the mineral-rich province of katanga ruled by moist chamber france or whatever his name is
the belgian police commissioner was probably the last westerner to see lumumba alive his death
opened the pandora's box to decades of pro-western tyranny in the country lumumba's assassination is
remembered today as the challenger deep i'm using a geographical reference because it's
the only way to capture the low point of the early years of african independence according to british
scholar susan williams book white malice the cia and the recolonization of africa the cia was one
of the chief architects of the plot as per orders from president eisenhower other contributors to
purchase lumumba's death were also the mi6 congo's first elected prime minister was patrice lumumba
who was immediately faced with a breakdown of order which country leader hasn't that's why they
invented the first 100 days so that it feels like they know what they're doing when patches came to
power there was an army revolt where secessionist groups from mineral ridge province of katanga took
over this was bound to happen because every treasure island does have a couple of pirates
due to this belgian paratroopers made their way back to get a piece of the action under
the guise of restoring security the each to be a white savior surpasses all human understanding
stressed out by this ongoing tumult lumumba made a fateful step he turned to the soviet
union for help you don't ask the russians for help they're the white enemy of the great white beyond
this set of panic in london and washington who feared the soviets would get a foothold in africa
much as they had done in cuba they were probably like they can't have what we have
those africans are ours to assist on whatever we want in the white house president eisenhower
held a national security council meeting in the summer of 1960 in which at one point he turned to
the cia director and used the words eliminated in terms of what he wanted to do with lumumba
oh eisenhower for someone who died with congestive heart failure his heart was always in the wrong
place following these orders the cia got to work they came up with a series of plans including
snipers and poison toothpaste to get rid of the congolese leader snipers i get badass very
cinematic but poison toothpaste this is horrible maybe that's why one out of every dentist doesn't
recommend one brand although they had all these plans they were not carried out because c.i.a man
on the ground larry devlin said he was reluctant to see them through sometimes you just need to
ignore your boss in a bid to save a life however some people in london were excited to step up to
complete the murder can't just let an opportunity squander itself eminem taught us all better
a foreign office official called howard smith wrote a memo outlining a number of options the
first is the simple one of removing him from the scene by killing him the civil
servant and later the head of mi5 wrote of lumumba who was ousted from power but still
but still considered a threat it was concluded that mi6 conspired with the cia to overthrow
even assassinate purchase lumumba congo's first democratically elected prime minister
another president who met his untimely demise was libyan president muhammad gaddafi and man who was
always just like he was cosplaying a decorated army general or he was ready for a pageant party
thanks to the 2016 publication of hillary clinton's emails the reason behind nato's entity
into libya was revealed one of the key reasons for nato's invasion was to prevent the creation of an
independent hard currency in africa that would free the continent of its economic bondage under
the dollar the imf and the french african franc if it was the previous episode you know no one wants
to give up the economic power over anyone it's like the last slice of anything you can call dibs
all you want but whoever's faster and stronger wins that hard currency would have allowed africa
to shake off its last heavy chains of colonial exploitation africa really had a martin luther
king junior moment for economic freedom the brief visit of then-secretary of state hillary clinton
to libya in october 2011 was referred to by the media as a victory lap that's what you call a win
over people who will need handouts and drown in the mediterranean for years to come before 2011
libya had achieved economic independence its own water its own food its own oil
money its own state-owned bank i know some of you are doubting that for an african country
but they had done it mostly under gaddafi and libya became africa's richest country he was
a problematic individual but he knew how to get things done problematic but getting things done
is also the full title of many presidents during his presidency education and medical treatment
were free and having a home was considered a human right american leaders were probably jealous that
they couldn't pull this off in their first world in the first place libyans participated in the
original system of democracy the country boasted of the world's largest irrigation system called
the great man-made river project which brought water from the desert to the cities and coastal
areas and qadhafi was embarking on a program to spread this model throughout africa i'm not one
to fully trust any politician but someone seeking to improve the quality of lives of citizens would
have won over a hater like me but that was before u.s nato forces bombed the irrigation system
and wrecked havoc on the country this is a perfect plan for anyone trying to look down to bring down
any nation if people have no food or water you're clear for takeoff into a full-on war
during president obama's dumb the situation on the ground in libya was so bad that he asked
his advisors to drop options including a new military front in libya the defense department
was reportedly standing ready with the full spectrum of military operations required
gaddafi's assassination followed nato's more than one month long siege of certe the libyan
coastal city that was gaddafi's hometown and center of his support one month is a long time
to be looking for someone personally i'm very good at giving up after an hour the assault of
this city of 100 000 left virtually every building smashed with untold numbers of civilians dead and
stricken by disease as they were deprived of food water medical care and other basic necessities
gaddafi was apparently travelling in a convoy of vehicles attempting to break out of the siege
after the last bastion of resistance had fallen to nato-backed rebels okay this might be a mean thing
to say but why was he in a convoy you know you have to take a decoy car shave your head and have
foster doubles dressed like they were going to a persian party and then you can probably escape on
20th october 2011 nato warplanes attacked the convoy leaving a number of vehicles in flames
and preventing it from moving forward and it is at this time that armed anti-gaddafi militias moved
in for the kill both u.s and france claimed credit for the roles in the murder of gaddafi of course
they did they are like a dynamic superhero duo of setting africa back a few presidents and remember
african nations are always fighting against imperialism always most of them just don't
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