...Albert's Note

From time to time, we have to ask ourselves (leaving aside our naive nationalism), what our place is in the world. In truth, we're not worth much. We're a tiny, landlocked country struggling to provide water and electricity to everyone, where roads are roads in name only, where road barriers (both legal and illegal) still exist, which makes Europeans laugh, even though they're now on highways. We're still stuck with kilometer markers, the infamous PKs, like under colonial rule (from which, by the way, we never truly freed ourselves): PK0, PK5, PK12, etc. Are we stupid, or are we doing this on purpose? We don't even have a national airline, and yet we fight and scheme to govern this sham of a country? By the way, in the national flag, designed by the Frenchman Pierre Kalck and not Boganda, the blue represents the waters of the Ubangi-Shari River, the white the sky of Cameroon, the green the Congo rainforest, and the yellow the Chadian desert. What have we done with that? The French killed Boganda in '59 (bomb remnants were found in the wreckage of the plane), but the French said: no investigation into Boganda's death, and the Black people, like good slaves, obeyed...to this day. Live well in this country of bums...that survives on international charity. This isn't Afro-pessimism, it's realism.

For: LAMINE MEDIA

Date: February 22, 2026

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