Dissecting Arikana Chihombori-Quao’s speech

Dr Arikana Chihombori-Quao delivered a blatantly provocative speech while serving as the African Uninon Ambassador to the US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOTEs2UHego

She was fired from the post shortly afterwards, https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/16/africa/petition-over-sacking-of-au-ambassador/index.html

This is my crude attempt to dig deeper into the gists of her speech:

• On the European scramble for Africa leading to its artificial and arbitrary fragmentation https://voxeu.org/article/long-run-effects-scramble-africa

• On France’s neo-colonialism through C.F.A. franc, Senegalese economist Ndongo Samba Sylla blogged the same sentiment more than 4 years prior, http://roape.net/2017/05/18/cfa-franc-french-monetary-imperialism-africa/