Triple identities of its elite
In Congo, its
elite have triple identities. You have to be careful when speaking with anyone
of them. Whenever one smiles with you, you can’t really tell whether it is
genuine or he is making a mockery of you. Most elite will always come closer to
you whenever he/she is in danger politically or wants to use you to destroy
his/her real or imaginary rival. Their friendships are never genuine. It is
most often than not, a matter of interest. But in all, there are nonetheless
some honest ones. The worse is that: they will say one thing, thinks differently
and acts differently.
Inferiority complex
The other
thing which has always marveled me with Congolese elite is not only their
effort to speak French with a Parisian accent. It is also their inferiority
complex toward white French people. They have a love and respect for France
that I have never seen before. To some of them, the most superior White is
French and from Paris. The simple facts that, today, most of them because of
their ill gotten wealth, they are forced to keep their pillage in China,
Morocco, Mauritius and the United Arab Emirates, is really painful to them.
They spend their ill gotten wealth in those countries mentioned, but to the
Congolese elite of the corrupt class it doesn’t have the same taste had they spent
their ill gotten wealth in France, especially in Paris. The seizing of
properties and ill gotten from Congolese dignitaries in France or preventing
them from traveling to France is most painful than jailing them. It is perhaps
the best thing that civil society organisations such a Sherpa and Transparency
International have done. However, the success will be complete when western
governments, especially France starts expelling their children, wives,
mistresses or denying them healthcare.
Another Personal experience:
Congolese inferiority complex
When I was
still working for Telesud in Paris, France, Maurice Nguesso once visited our
newsroom. During his visit, he met with Bernard Volker, the director of
Telesud, who is of course a white French man. At that time, I was working
concomitantly for Telesud and MNCOM. And when Mr Volker told him that, I was an
excellent journalist, Maurice Nguesso was impressed. When his visit was over, I
went to accompany to his car, which was stationed in the parking lot. However, before
entering into his car, we shock hands and he looked at me straight into my eyes
and said: “so you are so good, to a point that, white French people are
appreciating your professionalism?” Then
he added: “we are going to dominate the Congolese media landscape that is full
with communist oriented journalists who prefer to sing the praises of your
friend”. The morality
of this experience is that, had I not been appreciated by a white French man,
he would not have given any consideration to my very little talent. To the
discharge of Maurice Nguesso and also to some Congolese elite, they are not the
only ones who have a sickening inferiority complex, on the continent, when it
comes to their relationship with whites. I am convinced that, even some white
people are taken aback at how they are respected, whenever they visit the
continent, especially in French-speaking Africa: Congo Brazzaville.
Pretentious & unpatriotic elite
During my
stay in Brazzaville, I can’t count the number of times some government ministers
have told me proudly how they can’t watch their dresses or clothes in
Brazzaville or how they can’t consume meat sold in the country’s butcher’s
shops. They were proud to tell me that, their dresses were cleansed in Paris
and their meat and even yogurts came from Paris, France. Even their cars, most
often SUVs, when broken down, they are loaded into cargo planes and taken for
repairs in France. In fact most Congolese elite are a proud, pretentious,
unpatriotic, shallow minded, primitive, incompetent and mendacious lot, with
little or no love for their country. They are worst than mercenaries, hence they
are swift to embezzle the country’s wealth to secure it abroad.
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