USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Wagner propaganda

 " russia/wagner has used trolls and payments to buy popular support for its efforts in africa.it devotes itself to demonizing the french and extolling russian support. In this way, dictatorial regimes, from central africa to mali, are propped up by mali, and make enormous payments in minerals, wood, or beer."

So the Russians make "payments",  and 

central Africa and Mali make

"payments." What's the problem?

In any case, does the sun only

shine for France? Why can't the

Russians have a piece of the pie?

Fortunately, Africans can do 

cost-benefit analysis and understand 

the significance of geopolitical 

multipolarity.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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Ken:

Are the powers not bashing one another?

Did they not do the same in the 19^th century, and meeting at Berlin to agree not to fight one another but to partition?

What information control is Wagner doing that the US does not do?

Why can't they share Africa: Wagner takes the Sahel, France takes North Africa, the US Central Africa to South Africa?

 

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Date: Friday, July 28, 2023 at 1:19 PM
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This article in Le monde spells out how russia/wagner has used trolls and payments to buy popular support for its efforts in africa.it devotes itself to demonizing the french and extolling russian support. In this way, dictatorial regimes, from central africa to mali, are propped up by mali, and make enormous payments in minerals, wood, or beer.

I can't think of a worse scenario since independence in any african country, not even with neocolonialism and its imbalances.

Two reports show this: https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2023/07/28/faux-medias-et-reseaux-sociaux-au-c-ur-de-la-machine-de-propagande-russe-en-afrique_6183719_3210.html

 

https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2023/07/27/bangui-capitale-de-wagner-en-afrique_6183605_3212.html

 

In the first, details concerning trolling, payoffs to african news sources or publication sites, the massive wagner investment in influencing public opinion so as to accept wagner's interference and then take over of mines, factories, and in propping up the government.

The second demonstrates this in central african republic.

 

I wondered why the demonizing of france was tied to wagner's take-over of african states and resources, and now it makes sense. This fits the russian propaganda and i fueled by their immense machinery of falsifying reality using the internet.

in this way autocracy continues to gain its foothold in african states, not based on african needs or values, but in paying off mercenaries with the blood of african resources. It is incomprehensible to me how african scholars could be duped by this blatant take-over.

Ken

 

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