Cameroonian professor reveals the involvement of the West in terrorist wars in Africa
Cameroonian, Professor Franklin Nyamsi launched a book titled L’Impérial -Terrorisme last month in Bamako, Mali. The book stands out since it overtly addresses points that were not made, at least explicitly, before. This Professor of Philosophy decided to conduct a meticulous study that shows how Europe, the USA and their Middle Eastern allies worked to weaken Africa, create conflicts on the continent and loot its resources. It reveals the current form of aggression employed by the West and the Middle East in Africa.
This book is significant because it explores one of the main weaknesses that Africa is battling against. During the launch ceremony, the author stated that all his information in is based on a scientific survey that provides a clear exposé on terrorism and the situation in African countries. Professor Nyamsi identifies the following events or statements as triggers that inspired the document.
The first mentioned the situation that arose in August 2022, when, at the UN Security Council Summit, the representative of Mali accused France, and several other members of NATO and the European Union (EU), of funding terrorist attacks and the media behind the violence in West Africa and particularly in Mali. Mali then added that they had reliable evidence to support their claim and asked the security council to conduct investigations into this case.
France refuted the accusations and called Mali “an insane country” which makes accusations that are incongruous and unsubstantiated. France was said to see in Mali a country that believes in hot ice or warm ice, something that was impossible. That was the end. No investigation was conducted. Mali and her allies shut up, nobody tried to defend them. Months passed. Burkina Faso, as well as Niger, requested that the UN Security Council call for an open investigation of the various parties to find out the truth. Nothing has been done until now.
The treatment that Mali received that day made the author sad, as an African. Franklin Nyamsi explains that he considered the response an insult to the African intelligentsia and took it upon himself to unearth irrefutable data, coming out of NATO and Western countries, in general, to explain and prove that those same nations are indeed guilty of Mali’s claims. He says “I am a philosopher, and the philosopher is the one who starts things. As a proud son of Africa, I will find the proof that Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are referring to.”
Nyamsi’s used documents, archives from the USA, Europe, and France specifically, all archival information trusted by international organizations. His aim was to gather and exhibit the proof that AlQaeda and IS (ISIS) are not an Islamic groups but mercenaries, bandits funded by NATO and other powerful imperialist organs with their allies in the Middle East, who work to keep Africa in a constant state of war or conflict in order to pillage the resources of the continent.
The first piece of information that the researcher uses to ascertain the veracity of the accusations against NATO and Western countries and their Middle Eastern allies as the agents behind terrorism in the Sahel is information published on 30 July 2024, around 5:00 p.m. by the France 24, one of the most reliable sources of information under the control of the French ministry of Foreign Affairs. It stated: “France is the country that provides the largest financial support to the Jihadists in the Sahel, through the system of payment of ransoms (which were certainly monies to be paid, to set hostages captured by terrorist groups free).” This is one of the elements that the author used in that 198-page book, and is now showing it to the French, and is using it against them. The title of the book simply means “Terrorism as a descendant of imperialism.” He adds that the problem of terrorism in Africa is, in reality, a religious mystification, a system that is put in place and manipulated by mercenaries to achieve political aims.
One of the strong cases that the book makes is this striking parallelism: The nations that took part in or orchestrated chattel slavery and colonization form the majority of the NATO countries and the same countries, exactly, are masterminding terrorism in Africa. So those countries created terror in history and the recent past for 700 years and are still maintaining terrorism. Several other significant statements appear in the book: Declassified materials and the WikiLeaks documents that emanated from Hilary Clinton, the Secretary of State in the Obama Government, contained information like the following: President Qaddafi was assassinated not because he was a dictator or was practising bad governance. He was simply taken out because he was working to end the superiority of the US dollar. Similar sources add that the Euro and the CFA franc would have lost their sovereignty if Qaddafi had been allowed to produce the African currency he was working to put in place.
The author mentions some conversations between politicians in this effort to reveal the truth. The first one was the phone call between former French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius, and the current Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov in 2013. Fabius, allegedly, told his Russian counterpart that France intended to start fighting Jihadists in Mali (to support the armed forces of Mali in that mission) and he recommended that Russia stay out of the operation. Lavrov’s reaction, according to the same source, was to ask whether France was going to fight in Mali the terrorists that they had trained and equipped in Libya. And Fabius was known to have said “c’est la vie, (such is life).”
Then at the G7 summit in Deauville in France on 27 May 2011, the following conversation allegedly took place between the then US president, Barrack Obama and former president of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou. The Niger President made a statement to the G7 delegates along the following lines, that destroying Libya will obviously destabilize the whole Sahel region and Africa. And Obama, allegedly, said “we will finish the job”.
The last statement I will mention here is the one made by Elon Musk, the solid ally of President Donald Trump. Musk revealed that the USA has been funding terrorism through AlQaeda and IS for several years, pretending that such funds were used as assistance for development with 35 countries listed at that level. The author adds that Ms Tusi Gabbard, the newly-appointed US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) exclaimed just weeks ago that she is ashamed, because her country has been funding some people and organizations who killed US citizens on 11 September 2001.
Professor Franklin Nyamsi’s L’impérial Terrorisme is granted much credibility because none of the information contained in it was provided by Mali, Burkina Faso or Niger, and the preface was written by the Malian minister for Higher Education and Scientific research, Boureima Kassaye, a renowned scientist. The work elaborates certain points that have been heard once in a while from certain sources. The pan-African and revolutionary edge of the book lies in the homage paid to several brave and admired African leaders who made or are making history – from Kwame N’krumah, Modibo Keita, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, to the current presidents of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, whose foresight and audacity the author commends. He encourages the African youth to keep educating themselves and playing their role as the architects of the new society they desire for themselves and their countries.
Moussa Traoré is Professor at the Department of English of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
