Junta takes power in Gabon - Frogeaters on suicide watch

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A big issue with Africa is that blacks were rapidly transitioned from tribal societies led by warlords, chiefs and kings into quasi-modern democratic societies without the much needed cultural development and evolution. That is to say a lot of countries in Africa are technically democracies but is populated with people that still hold onto tribal ideas of governance.

So yeah it's easy for warlords or dictators to rise up and gain mass support, because that's how it worked for literally thousand of years up until only a few generation ago.
 
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I (Don't) Have A Gun said:
A big issue with Africa is that blacks were rapidly transitioned from tribal societies led by warlords, chiefs and kings into quasi-modern democratic societies without the much needed cultural development and evolution. That is to say a lot of countries in Africa are technically democracies but is populated with people that still hold onto tribal ideas of governance.

So yeah it's easy for warlords or dictators to rise up and gain mass support, because that's how it worked for literally thousand of years up until only a few generation ago.
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And France wonders why the thousands of blacks they import don't peacefully integrate and instead riot like a bunch of speds on coke.
 
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NOT a member of ECOWAS, although right on their southern border.
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They don't actually border ECOWAS. The easy way to remember is that ECOWAS is the former French West Africa plus the coastal enclaves that surrounded it. Gabon was part of French Equitorial Africa, which has no successor member group and is made up of a bunch of "real winners" in Chad, Gabon, the CAR and French Congo (the little one.)
 
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I'm a massive armchair historian, not anyone qualified, but I suspect that this is part of a greater trend that is only going to accelerate. The idea of the "end of history" liberal world order continuing forever was bound to break down eventually, and Africa, being generally composed of shithole states, was bound to be the canary.
 
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whatever I feel like said:
They don't actually border ECOWAS. The easy way to remember is that ECOWAS is the former French West Africa plus the coastal enclaves that surrounded it. Gabon was part of French Equitorial Africa, which has no successor member group and is made up of a bunch of "real winners" in Chad, Gabon, the CAR and French Congo (the little one.)
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Good shout, for some reason I believed Cameroon to be in ECOWAS too.

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I'm a massive armchair historian, not anyone qualified, but I suspect that this is part of a greater trend that is only going to accelerate. The idea of the "end of history" liberal world order continuing forever was bound to break down eventually, and Africa, being generally composed of shithole states, was bound to be the canary.
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I think statistically there was not a year in african post-colonial history without a civil war/military junta/revolution. It does however somewhat impact the scene in the region, being second francophone land to overthrow their government in a very short time period.
 
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Skeletonized Cow said:
I'm a massive armchair historian, not anyone qualified, but I suspect that this is part of a greater trend that is only going to accelerate. The idea of the "end of history" liberal world order continuing forever was bound to break down eventually, and Africa, being generally composed of shithole states, was bound to be the canary.
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Maybe we should all chip in, buy some sticks, take over one of their countries and exploit it while Null can set up some servers there before all the good countries are taken.
 
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Skeletonized Cow said:
I'm a massive armchair historian, not anyone qualified, but I suspect that this is part of a greater trend that is only going to accelerate. The idea of the "end of history" liberal world order continuing forever was bound to break down eventually, and Africa, being generally composed of shithole states, was bound to be the canary.
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France does a good job helping their former colonies stay stable. The islamic terrorism is getting worse in parts of africa, though.
 
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