Africa comes out of oblivion

In recent years, Africa has become the continent of the future, as it had been labeled in the fervor of colonial independence, the forgotten Continent that only importers of cheap raw materials and some diplomats remembered when they collected the votes of their governments considered Third World to get out of some jam in the United Nations debates.

But the situation seems to be changing, at least in the interests of some of the great powers to exercise their influence, if not their control over governments that are always precarious, and each one competing to be in the best position to take advantage of the distressing situations in suffered by the vast majority of countries and particularly their inhabitants.

While the natives risk their lives and families migrating to the rich European north, where danger and more bearable poverty await them, some superpowers take advantage to control their future, naturally for their own benefit.. It must be said that much of the blame lies with the former colonizers, particularly the United Kingdom and France, which as soon as they forcibly gave in to decolonize, forgot about the problems they left behind.

Now some governments, such as Macron's in France, are trying to recover their influence with little success and, as has been shown in Mali, demonstrating an inability to exercise it.. On the other hand, others, first China and then Russia, signed up to replace them.. China promised fictitious aid to improve public infrastructure, which was immediately revealed to be botched, and offering credit to governments whose corrupt incumbents were quick to squander, leaving their countries in debt.

And now it is Russia, Putin's Russia, which has infiltrated and has not stopped doing so, and put its mercenary armies of the Wagner Group to guarantee the presidents of the unstable republics, of which there are many, the military protection necessary to stay in power, guaranteeing that some remain in office forever and others favoring being overthrown by military coups as has occurred in Sudan and is currently occurring in Niger. This weekend it was published in the international press, after a pompously named Russia-Africa summit, that forty out of fifty-five African countries have their stability under the indirect control of Putin.