In more than 20 years in journalism in Africa, I’ve come across many examples of people who tried to build, if not their countries, then at least a life: a family who ran a fishing business in Senegal; a farmer with cows to milk in the DRC; a village with cotton fields in Mozambique; communities who tended a forest in Cameroon. Yet, in Senegal the government sold the fishing licences to foreign trawlers, leaving the village – and later a second, third and fourth one too – without income. The Congolese farmer saw his cows appropriated by a local governor. A mining company, in partnership with the ruling party, came to bulldoze the Mozambique village. The forest in Cameroon was plundered by a European company that got approval, and a dinner, from friendly government politicians. A special forces brigade paid for by Israel burned down the rebellious villages around the forest
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