“Niger’s coup leaders believe they must first rid the region of the French and American military and then boot out their fifth columnists in the military, the media and the and the NGOs.”
Say what one wants to about the Bell Curve, but the coup leader in Niger are FAR SMARTER than most Westerners, who are absolutely CLUELESS as to what these organizations are doing to their countries.
When the slavetraders were selling their slaves...they weren’t selling their best and brightest.
Almost all of Africa is goverened by tribal based politics. That means that today’s chief wants, personal control and use of the nation’s capital. With that, the people still get poverty and squalor.
The current bitch is they want to maximize profits, THEIR profits now that they have an understanding of resource values. It’s about their cash, not the nation’s.