When you are a chosen one of the West, democracy is just a word. You can win with numbers similar to those of a banana republic, and you will get applauded. You can trade your military fatigues for a suit, so long as you keep your friendship with the metropolis, you will be loved, cherished, and praised, and your intelligence will be lauded above all else. After all, you are there to serve the external masters, and they have given you carte blanche. This past Saturday, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema won the presidential elections in Gabon with an overwhelming 90.35% of the vote (only in our tropical banana republics can we see this). It reminds us of a time when another ‘great democrat’ (who, mind you, has been in power for over 30 years) of Rwanda won by 99%! My goodness! And the West will give us great lessons of democracy! When Traoré got his country and parliament to give him 5 years of confidence (Burkina Faso’s Transition Government Gets a 5-year Confidence Vote by the People)… there was an outcry in the MSM. Even when Maduro in Venezuela got 51+%, the mighty international community called him a dictator. What of Kagame? Double Standards is all! Honestly, the problem is not Oligui Nguema, but rather the double standards, and that concept which has been drilled into our heads called democracy, but which in reality is a tool used by the West to praise those who serve well or to destroy the ‘bad’ students who refuse to bow down (Africans and the Trap of Democracy, and Africans, let us not Fall in the Trap of Democracy!). By the way, did you notice that since we published our article on Friday, the MSM have now taken to calling him ‘coup leader’ when before it was not the case? 

Oligui Nguema told Al Jazeera that he ‘will restore dignity to the Gabonese people‘. We can only hope for the best for the people of Gabon.

You can check out Le Monde, BBC, RFI, AP, The Print, and Al Jazeera… there is such a discrepancy compared to the treatment of the leaders of the AES in the media.