We have talked so many times about the numerous puppet regimes installed throughout Africa, but we have not talked about how these regimes came to be. It is no secret that these puppet governments, particularly in francophone Africa, are inherited from colonial era, and before that from slavery times. They just morphed over time. The authorities of kings of different African kingdoms and empires were slowly reduced to those of couriers or delivery boys, totally disconnected from their original power rooted in their ancestral traditions. Those who rebelled were simply killed or deposed, or forced to bow down like Behanzin, Prempeh I, Samori Toure, and more. Once we understand this, it is now clear why today we often see African presidents run abroad to France or wherever to take their orders: when they win elections, when new rules need to be established, or their currency devalued, etc.

Pr. Bwemba Bong explains it so well in his book “Quand l’Africain était l’or noir de l’Europe. L’Afrique: Actrice ou Victime de la Traite des Noirs? – Démontage des mensonges et de la falsification de l’histoire de l’hydre des razzias négrières transatlantiques” (When the African was the black gold of Europe. Africa: Actress or Victim of the Slave Trade ? – Dismantling the lies and falsification of the hydra history of the transatlantic Slave Raids),” MedouNeter 2022, p. 170 (translated to English by Dr. Y, Afrolegends.com). In his section titled “The transformation of the administrators of the so-called French-speaking colonial Black Africa into anti-African, ethnic ogres and terrorists”, he explains :

In the political sphere, traditional African institutions were completely destroyed to make way for the establishment of the slave system, for which the disappearance of African kingdoms and empires was a sine qua non prerequisite. When European and African criminals had not simply seized their thrones, African kings and emperors were now placed under the subordination of European slave traders. This violent intrusion, through the dismantling of legitimate powers replaced by subservient structures whose survival is today represented by African “chieftaincies,” but above all by the so-called African state, has created new, artificial, and illegal territorial structures. From now on, the authority of African “rulers” had and has its source only in the wicked European law and no longer in the institutions of their ancestors.

The act of recognition by the slave-owning power now constituting the sole legal basis for the exercise of power, any structure not expressly approved because it was established by the European invading authority—which alone granted and still grants today the title of “king,” “chief,” or “president” (depending on the appropriate tactic)—was and is automatically guilty of the crime of usurpation of title, and was and is irremediably subject to deposition, or even execution, through the system of coups d’état so prevalent today in Sub-Saharan Africa.