from ligali.org............
"Dr. Kwame Osei explains why he believes that the capture of Laurent Gbagbo by French mercenaries brings the essence of Western imperialism against Afrikan liberation to the fore".
"Gbagbo was aware of this repugnant arrangement and when he became president in 2000 began to challenge this arrangement by giving some government contracts to Chinese firms rather than French companies who had previously secured all government contracts, by restricting the market share of French companies in Ivory Coast who previously enjoyed a total monopoly of the Ivorian market and by refusing to pay the French government royalties to use his own presidential palace and other Ivorian institutions.
This incensed Paris and the French political elite who knew of Gbagbo’s Pan-Afrikan agenda and were determined to use every means necessary to stop Gbagbo in his tracks"...........read more here
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