Exactly. I never understood how France, Belgium etc tend to get a pass for their colossal failure in West/Central Africa and the Caribbean.
The impact of their fukked up colonial and post-colonial policies have repeatedly derailed any type of progress countries like the Congo and Haiti
Out of all Europeans they were the most consistently brutal as far as I'm concerned. Germans and Italians got in the game too late to test the limits of their savagery although they came strong with it, but the French speakers were fukkin sick. Belgians in particular get all my contempt, I truly hate King Leopold and anyone that love him. The later acts of intervention by the Belgians(and Americans) especially regarding Patrice Lumumba was even more sickening. al Jazeera had some good programs on French involvement in Africa, fukk them.