'French Chickens Coming to Roost'

France is learning a painful lesson in Africa and the chickens are coming home to roost. That’s how Pan-African scholar P.L.O. Lumumba sums up the anti-French feeling sweeping parts of the Sahel. The people-backed coup in Niger follows similar events in Mali and Burkina Faso. After decades of exploiting the economies and resources of these countries, the French are being told to get out.
Ask Nigeriens who live in the world’s second-poorest nation despite supplying tonnes uranium to France for half a century. See the frustrations among those who live in the 14 African states still bound and financially oppressed by the CFA franc.
The time has come for France to acknowledge the injustices built into its system, according to Lumumba.
Listen to him explain how Paris' brutal actions on the continent are finally catching up with it.