Reactions to Macron's Africa remarks - BBC Africa

[@ArenAurelius]

Global South Countries were colonized not because they are poor but because they are rich in natural resources.

[@WWTin2024]

And their people are friendly, trusting and welcoming.

[@briopalumpus8676]

as well as forming a huge captured market for goods from the colonial centres.

[@User40_rt24]

​@@WWTin2024This is what I have thinking all the time. In adition to that I realized that since the independence our leaders have been so corrupt. I hope this is not another stunt just to please their people while they are selling their countries.

[@squarefour65]

so true

[@fernandkoerkamp3071]

It where jews

[@susuilu]

Imagine an intruder telling you you are ungrateful for (not) accepting their phony a.s.s.

[@BlueIvory4]

Sounds a lot like African immigrants in the West…

[@Falcon2609]

​@@BlueIvory4🤡

[@samanth.]

​@@BlueIvory4the west wanted to colonise the world but doesn't want immigrants, u can only blame your people for the migrants

[@Rkikomeko]

Uganda plays a bigger role than France.

[@MandiClement]

​@@BlueIvory4what did African immigrants steal from the West? West came to Africa thwarted our development, maimed, looted graped our continent. Africa was minding Her business before the West invaded Her... GREED kept the West in Africa till date.

[@tubab1]

Imagine an armed robber breaking into your house and holding you hostage after stealing your belongings. The robber then decides to stay in your house and even makes a spare key so that he can go and come as he wishes. He then offers to protect you against other robbers for as long as you want. Meanwhile, he continues to loot your belongings., Eat your food and steal your money. After a few years you tell the robber to leave your house and he becomes angry and calls you ungrateful.

[@dodoeury5771]

I'm very pissed of with that word "ungrateful" he just used. How unintelligent** he is to think so about us

[@mestizosmulatos9624]

I like the way You put it. I will save it in My archives 👍🙏

[@hopeesperanza2867]

Soo true. Well put. The robber also uses media to tell all his children and cousins that you are poor and you depend on them and their donations to survive. You and your own family become objects of pity and ridicule to his whole family when it is them who are leeches feeding off you.

[@mestizosmulatos9624]

@hopeesperanza2867 AFRICA UNITED is the only way forward. The future is bright 🙏🙏🙏

[@catattack007]

Brilliant analogy 🎯

[@StopTheHypocrisy9]

With all due respect, why do you guys care what macron says? His soldiers have finally left Africa, and he is clearly salty about it. To heck with whatever he says at this point.

[@UserDontiAS]

He will never 😢 left easily, they will try other means

[@WWTin2024]

Macaroni is trying new methods to control Africa

[@debbakin1]

​@UserDontiAS That's the absolute Truth! It's extremely difficult to get rid of a PARASITE!

[@nalaabdou9747]

It's like taking over a business that had a bad reputation, working to change it but the previous owners goes around talking about the business negatively, talking about events that supposedly happened il the business years ago. We care because he is contributing to a certain image, and because he is trying to discredit the leaders

[@ngalahansel6066]

❤❤I stand with you man

[@Adams_0x]

They've been fighting jihadist for ages. They are there for their own personal reasons considering how improvished these countries they occupy are.

[@Layoobi]

💯 in agreement! The French and the other imperialists are in Africa to loot their natural resources not there to fight terrorism! Who brought those terrorists to the sahel region after destabilising Libya? 😢😢

[@hopeesperanza2867]

They are not impoverished countries. They are wealthy countries whose resource is looted by France and the western world. Look at how the AES countries have managed to pay off their countries debts in less than 3 years. Is that done by an impoverished people.

[@wersab5960]

ooga booga

[@chongomukupa4467]

It is the same French who have impoverished them!! Let them go, after all they are the ones who created and have been collaborating with the same terrorists they pretent to fight

[@GirlsRuleTheWorld2023]

It would be dumb as a nation to do anything for free.

[@masibam7752]

😂😂😂😂😂 i dont think he prepared that soeech. He spoke his heart...much respect for his honesty. I respect a blatant racist. You know exactly what you're dealing with

[@squarefour65]

you in a predominate black country and is a white racist think,i would speak my heart and leave, i dealing with black and white i should know what to say or read between the lines

[@petermacharia7171]

Yes, he didn't. was a confession to the rigt audience 😂😢

[@multyz1]

Nonsense!!!

[@harrie205]

He is neoliberal Of course he is racist

[@FllixRouge]

YES! 😅

[@kwektans]

The French destabilized Libya and Jihardist got access to Libyan weapons and created trouble in the Sahel. And yet France wants a thank you for helping create problems and then trying to solve them.

[@chrisomoding9890]

They didn't try to solve the problems but just pretended to be solving them.

[@zenibrahimkamara]

Yes, they aim to continue colonizing Africa. Let’s not forget-they will soon come up with new plans to hold Africa back. Their actions are self-serving, prioritizing the interests of French people over others.

[@Mark-z5v8m]

Our freedom doesn't depend on what they will do next. It depends on us. The kind of leaders we select n the moves we make. We have to continue on the new trend of making moves, instead of reacting to their moves

[@User40_rt24]

​​Very clear👏👏👏

[@oceanwave4502]

If the Global South "helps" the West defeat Russia/China, then there won't be anyone left to help prevent Colonialism 2.0 from the West.

[@spirit5228]

France is already in Nigeria and cote d'ivoire

[@mahcem]

France is actually the one who should be thanking African countries for the ride... while it lasted. Milking them 500 billion euros a year via compulsory deposits and then lending them their own money back thank you very much.

[@gibson2675]

They free to leave the franc

[@josuesigauque9709]

@mahcem I thought that was insane, couldn't believe when I first heard this Franc story. The true definition of neo-colonialism!!!!

[@wenbo595]

Where they can only buy France expensive and poor quality goods

[@stanleygriffith4534]

🎯

[@stephanobarbosa5805]

France should thank Germany for being civilized by it in 1870 and in 1940... so...

[@baboucarsallah-mohammed6651]

This guy speaks like he gets funding from the french.

[@nicolenims3850]

Because he does. The all channel is

[@Boukarimaiga]

He is a disgrace to all Africans, How can he justify Macron’s insult on all of us!!

[@cybercafe8721]

exactly he made me mad

[@Him-known]

How is he a racist

[@daviroza4700]

They still colonizing africa

[@Falcon2609]

Exactly

[@AtheismScientism]

False. Africans are colonizing Europe.

[@ItzFawaz-]

French speaking countries right?

[@deeznutz8320]

​@@ItzFawaz-Yeah Senegal Mali Congo etc

[@exdrti]

Not any more , but old habits are toxic

[@husseintumusime7647]

U people u forget how france organized genocide in Rwanda😮😮.

[@gibson2675]

They also organised your crime

[@jason4275]

They can only be ungrateful if you had succeeded in defeating the terrorist, France failed their job, got fired and now criticizing everyone else. themselves.

[@jimmymungai522]

Has macron and France as a whole ever said thank you to all their Afrikan colonies for the plunder over years? I don't think so!!

[@gibson2675]

I am supporting le pen

[@factsoverfear9771]

Wonder who funds rebel groups. France 💡

[@barakabahati6600]

France 🇫🇷

[@harrie205]

Even before they created the base for terrorism(poverty) through centuries of colonial ruling

[@onyiiilo378]

And America/Britain.

[@peikinwinner6255]

Imagining stealing from us, n calling us ungrateful 😅 How much they paying that fool with the tie?

[@MamieKabanguMushingua]

The bottom line is France has done nothing in those African regions for the past decades! The Africans have the right to look for help somewhere else, all we need is an African army.

[@vignonamoussouvi3592]

This David is sick. Where the problem came from ? Not Libya 🇱🇾, destroyed by France and friends? Il you, the expert, have forgotten, we the real people of Africa, we do not forget. Because our love for our continent doesn’t guided by money

[@PBP444]

David is an absolute joke... Sellout dude...

[@lindiwebuthelezi5788]

The hosts thanking the parisites for sucking them dry, the nerve!

[@alaingustavesawadogo907]

Exactly !!! It seems Macron thinks we can have access to air because of France.

[@gray_foxx583]

Macron and France should express it's gratitude to it's African colonies for the standard of living that they have enjoyed for centuries.

[@edwardtabi7812]

They crated all the bad things in Africa, now he is complaining?

[@memunatusaffa9216]

😢exactly It’s the double standards mindset. Bunch of hypocrites and narcissists

[@lantilope8980]

Always whining about what happened in the past does not help to build the futur.

[@PeverellTheThird]

Some of the bad things

[@samanth.]

​@@lantilope8980that's not the past, it's still happening

[@Benchmark243]

The west is responsible for destabilising Africa. They sponsor the terrorists because conflict is a multi- billion dollar business. Colonization is not in the past; it is alive and well today and the shameless west practice it as a matter of foreign policy. So we are not whining about the past. It is our reality and as long as the west maintains this policy, we shall continue to talk about it. France is still printing colonial money for her former colonies and receiving colonial tax from some of them. Imagine being colonized and enslaved, and having to pay your enslaver for enslaving you! Colonialism is not in the past.

[@lifeisthebestteacher]

David's analysis shows his bias is obviously annoying. Who are Jihadis and who sponsors them?

[@BollySports24]

Imagine if you and your people have never step foot in Africa ? It’ll remain unexplored with all it’s natural resources and opportunities

[@petermacharia7171]

😂😂. Yes. The natives could not trace a mountain. Couldn't trace a lake or a river. The natives couldn't sell their loved ones into slavery. The natives couldn't colonize themselves. That must have been a weakling native.

[@Niani23455]

"Imagine if you and your people have never step foot in Africa? It'll remain unexplored with all it's natural resources and opportunities" The pre modern African empires and kingdoms were already exploring the natural resources thousands of years before European contact. This goes as far back as ancient Nubia. Let's not forget the West African Empires like Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Asante, Benin who tapped into gold, salt mines and glass industries.

[@BollySports24]

@ Yes the bronzes and gold is used to make the kingdoms great not taking them away from Africa

[@SamOmondi-x3q]

Aswell don't forget about the kushite kingdom kemets over brothers

[@baisjeng]

This macron is a clown

[@gibson2675]

Le pen was right

[@smallscaleminingsupplies9670]

We'll we don't have foreign troops in Tanzania, neither do we know the French, never heard their language been spoken anywhere in my country, we don't have any connection with them and we are living peacefully,

[@Msambweni]

Ma'am, please ask an adult near you to help you understand the video clip. Have a blessed day.

[@joycelinelyimo-fenske8745]

She understood it very well. And answer is correct. France put himself as serviour of the​@Msambweni

[@joycelinelyimo-fenske8745]

They never let the sahel region. It pisses them off, knowing very well that they can't survive without.

[@cephasdaka7279]

She understood it very well, u on the other hand need to find an adult near u who can explain to u that Africa is a continent with over 50 countries, so why should Africans who have never had anything to do with France be lumped into this?​@@Msambweni

[@anny19988]

Ufaransa aliwasapoti magaidi wa Msumbiji walioua hadi raia wa Tanzania.We mwenzetu unaishi wapi?. Na anavyowaumiza waafrika huko nchi za Sahel wewe haikuumi? Au unaona sawa tu waafrika wenzio wanavyoumizwa?

[@sigariga6361]

Just as Sonko puts it, France should be grateful to African nations for defending them during WW2.

[@nikinightingale8952]

Mr. Otto you should defend your continent and advocate for a free Africa. Shame on you!

[@vitalaliu8604]

As a Nigerian, its embarrassing that the world's most corrupt leader tinubu is romancing France 🇫🇷. What a shame 😢😢😢😢

[@estherodanga4238]

Have Nigerian citizens stopped going to France?

[@vitalaliu8604]

@estherodanga4238 🤡 sometimes it's best to be quiet 🤫 especially if you can't make sense

[@Nyashbae]

No surprise. Romancing with France, having assets in Britain. ...

[@canesugar911]

​@@estherodanga4238when have they ever

[@iali00]

The guy in Ivory Coast is the reason why that country is under the thumb of France.

[@gibson2675]

China next

[@gmambo2053]

My thoughts exactly

[@Phosphoenol_pyruvate_CK]

ALL of them would have been sovereign countries if France and their ilk minded their damn business! 😒

[@Just_another_Euro_dude]

There's no countries in Africa. The borders were created by the France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, etc. Before the Europeans there were just territories there with tribes and "people's", but NO modern country. Zero. Same was with India and the Middle East. All the borders there were made by the Europeans. Same in Latin America. The borders there were ALSO made by the Europeans.

[@deeznutz8320]

​@@Just_another_Euro_dudeOf course we build the fucking world

[@gibson2675]

Look at Ethiopia. Never colonised but so poor

[@jeremee4sure]

Tinubu actually shake hands with this man in 2024 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@Nyashbae]

Are you surprised?

[@mentorMaya-M23NKJ16]

I once stood at the eiffel tower looking down and my heart was bleeding as i saw the magnitude of Africa's riches sprawling before my eyes. It was a very emotional day for me. 😢

[@jomesanderson15]

I highly disagree with the points made by this David guy. He should be ashamed for saying those words as an African. What at all has France done for these countries than continue exploiting them.

[@factsoverfear9771]

They made things worse 💡

[@muhammadbello9689]

Honestly Macrons words weren't as hurtful as hearing these two trying seriously to give path to what he said. Sad

[@florencemuganda6005]

since 2013 France has failed to curb any insiuurgents in the Sahel. From what I understand, since that coalition has arrived in the Sahel things have gotten worse. Not better.

[@banx87ify]

"ungratefulness, I know all too well, is a disease that is not transmitted to humans" What does he mean by this.

[@pouriel1778]

The same question I have ! Not really making a y sens for me.

[@chikeaniekwena9009]

Wow! Mr David Otto! He literally made excuses for the French president.

[@Deni7_]

He’s an agent

[@memunatusaffa9216]

Hmmmmm🧐 Una wait nor more Mama Africa go moss Unite. The rogue political thieves are being exposed disgraced and brought to open shame. We all should enjoy the good of the continent, not just wicked homegrown apartheid criminals

[@flamani54]

These remarks by Macron should not be considered a big deal. Sonko reacted. That is enough. Beware of shinning objects thrown at your feet to lost track of the essentials. Move on Africans.

[@MONGALIJONAS]

France must be out of Africa!

[@AdekunleLawal]

The war in Libya which France was part of contributed significantly to the destabilization of the Sahel region. It was also said by the Sahel states that while fighting terrorism France was also colluding as a means to keep getting access to resources so why should they be grateful. France should be grateful that those countries were naive enough to allow them all that room.

[@mathabotlou7221]

This rhetoric is paternalist and one cannot remove the history of a nation from the present. Historical precedent is essential to understanding how this situation unfolds, suggesting that we only focus on recent history, add to the existing narrative that African states require European “help” to maintain sovereignty.

[@thandekaxulu1060]

And yet one of the French MPs was allowed to international make a statement saying that if France loses all her African colonies, the nation would collapse, that was the most inconsiderate thing I have ever heard a polotician say about other nations, their time is up and they must leave Africa once and for all....

[@ItsBrobè]

They’ve been kicked out of Africa under his watch.

[@christopheradodo4718]

He sounds to me a bitter man who wanted to continue with his perpetual military bases in Africa. Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever.

[@librepenseur5263]

Am from french Africa, right after insulting those countries he bragged about their new target " anglophone countries Nigeria Kenya and Ethiopia specially, he blames then urges local medias to focus more on anglophone Africa over french... So guys be aware guys french politics will brings chaos and mass looting to your countries please don't let them invade you

[@stepheng7716]

Yeap there is a President peddling capital intensive development projects from French companies in East Africa....and the security expert opinion is clearly about securing his per diem.

[@felixmakinda7689]

We, Kenyans, are watching closely. We will stand up and fight at the right time.

[@kofisugar]

Is it force to support..🤔? Why is France crying.... 😭😭😭 - it's evident France is going to lose a lot of revenue.. Africa 🌍 unit.

[@wenbo595]

They should also ask for payment for 200 years of colonialism

[@vanynaya]

This David Otto should just stay out of the conversation he certainly is not welcome to speak for Africans

[@IshmaelAtadika]

Macron do you remember Rwanda?

[@JTMoustache]

Those guests are clowns

[@simbachui2281]

4real---

[@abayomiadeniji]

A condescending comment. They didn't eliminate terrorism.

[@RobertOchicha-m8u]

France has greatly and severely enslave exploit and has over benefitted from Africa. That France is rich today and having a say in world affairs is because of exploited African wealth. Why has France not deem it necessary to thank Africa for Africa's ''contribution'' in elevating France to the world stage?

[@onemysore6120]

I admire how carefully but clear these contributors provided their perspective.

[@isaaclangat568]

France has the second largest gold reserves in the world with zero gold mines. I cry for my African people

[@WWTin2024]

Macaroni needs to just go away

[@adanfarah2080]

Spoken like a colonialist, seeking gratitude for subjugation plunder and genocide, by extension he should also ask Congo to build a statue for King Leopold,

[@L0k17ha60d]

Where do you get these so called experts. Analysis and reasoning is total BS

[@Rkikomeko]

We have seen Uganda playing a bigger role than France in Africa.

[@GreenOrchid9]

Macron was too busy with his teacher out of classroom instead of in the classroom learning history of French colonialism. In Africa

[@LisaHart17]

Wow. The utter disconnect from Colonial harm and how insurgencies happen.

[@jujutrini8412]

France hasn’t displayed very much gratitude for the vast wealth, human suffering and sacrifices these countries have given to it. Maybe when France does this other countries might follow suit.

[@ratchet2505]

Intimidation is influence built on sand, cooperation is influence built on stone. France falls into the former.

[@kissamboupreciouskissambou6950]

Am an African,the guy with a tie is living in space not on earth like us

[@Cotyledonous]

Macron could have chosen different words to express the same sentiments knowing that we Africans are very touchy about such things

[@j-pgaspard8325]

Macron said ingratitude is a disease not transmissible to humans. Who or what did he called ingrats? This comment proves everything we need to know.

[@GordonKhan-e7k]

Come together my African brothers and sisters.. do the best for Africa.. God bless AES ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@stephanobarbosa5805]

France should thank Germany for being civilized by it in 1870 and in 1940... so...

[@TheDaughterOfYah_]

He sounds crazy .... looting resources in the background and keeping countries in poverty while telling a sovereign country they are ungrateful, how much more self aggrandizement and wickedness can he be?

[@Africanwindows]

What the western countries should understand clearly is that, Africa countries of today is not that of four hundred years ago that our fourth fathers were deceived. But today, the Africans are educated and well traveled around the world and also understand the games the western world are playing with Africans for centuries

[@Hartford92]

Nowhere in the history of French Colonialism in Africa has the French Civilization ever attempted to lift up the AFRICAN CONTINENT economy equal to themselves!

[@kingjams]

All Africa needs to do is cut off all supplies and resources to foreign countries and then we can see who really should be saying thank you. Europe would decline in less than 10 years. These people need to watch their mouth on how they speak on Africa.

[@moturianyfelix2240]

On the contrast France is not grateful to the African countries, all the wealth France has or has so far acquired is from the Sahel region countries. Their football team is 99% African origin players. Macron should have instead taken a conciliatory approach

[@madamekanu]

Macron don't show a pinch of shame saying that.😂😂😂 Who needs who,France??😅😅

[@Christopheverjans]

France in Africa is like IDF/ Natanyahu/ Israel. In Palestine/ Gaza

[@sonofdsun]

Next is the CFA franc dissolution. How can the Central bank of west Africa be in Paris?

[@sb-rd8oc]

Shout out to the analysts for being rational and professional

[@AlphaOumarKouneDiallo]

And then you have Nigeria, Kenya and Ethiopia opening largely their doors to France. You've been warned!!!!

[@hoverboy]

Opening doors for trade and mutually beneficial alliances we hope. In Kenya we understand that every nation out there is looking out for themseleves and so are we. We work with China, India, Russia, USA, Britain, Getmany and we'll work with your Senegal too. None of these nations are blemishless soo.....

[@Mark-z5v8m]

​@@hoverboyThat should not include new foreign military bases on the continent

[@hoverboy]

@Mark-z5v8m Like I said, for trade and mutually beneficial relations. If that involves military forces like we have British troops training in Kenya, so that they collaborate in training our forces too, then so be it.

[@valleyesogwa5058]

I see people insulting Mr macron on his statement,but remember thousand of Africans still lay in abbys in Tunisia, hoping to cross the Mediterranean into France and other European countries and thousands of billions of dollars are being paid to their embassy's for visa fees, kicking their military out of Africa, gives more room for islamists influences becoming stronger,being grateful is a virtue.

[@clementgavi7290]

Blaise Pascal was born in 1623 and died in 1662. In one of his thoughts he said 'Let man having come to himself consider what he is at the price of what is.' In borrowing from his thought, let's consider that what is, is what has been said about the continent that we found insulting, disrespectful, etc I invite us, we who complain to consider who we are, what are our own truth in relation to what has been said about Africa in order to determine whether what is contemptuous of Africa and Africans is what we are, or whether it is what is said about Africa that is contemptuous? If the life that is born in Africa suffers from we who are complaining, then our complains have not a moral ground.

[@ominakotte8214]

Lol, if you specifically take out the Africans from what he called " French Army and the French Nathanal Football's " squad , where are the French ?

[@fatumataholloway4897]

Africa would say thank you if the West and France hadn't explored Africa.

[@dbsk06]

It’s actually insane to hear these kind of comments in 2025

[@ahmadaminu4124]

Freedom for africa .

[@ijangcolette4242]

They never saw the need for a thank you bc they were the main beneficiary in the so called collaboration ,let everyone concentrate on their own resources

[@RB-rc2rr]

Proud of our prime minister Ousmane Sonko.France have destabilize a lot of African countries. It's really time to end any partnership we may have with him and move on to new partners.

[@elani6507]

This is why Rwanda rejected France and the French after their duplicitous role in the genocide. Almost all the Francophone countries in Sub-Sahara Africa have not benefited from their foreign master’s abusive and exploitative relationship. People believe that France is in cahoots with the rebels in the Sahel region and at the same time, pretend to be fighting insurgents to make them look and act as liberators.

[@frankwilliams6800]

African countries need to organize and come together, otherwise Europeans will continue to devide and concur.

[@PelumiOluwapelumi-o8z]

Someone NEEDS to tell Macron, Africa doesn't care.

[@iosvanissuarez]

Some nations are not only ungrateful for international aid they are also proud to be only have a look at what can they manufacture by themselves a total joke

[@dodoeury5771]

The audacity of Macron and his France. Macron you're fired🔥( From me and my beloved Africa to you).

[@s.tanh9818]

Yep he talking about Mr Ouattara from Ivory Coast who is quiet because he knows he is in power thanks to the French.

[@oliviaabraham1169]

Haiti defeated France and drove them of Haiti , now he is talking about France being the reason some African countries gained independence.

[@ogamax5732]

He is too young to understand the history of France and Africa. God bless AES, God bless Africa 💪.

[@shaneflannigan7919]

The second man to speak is part of the problem. He should leave with France.

[@vintagemusicgroup9236]

Hahahaha, so they love the Sahel states that much😂😂😂😂

[@valentinekofiadu9928]

I don't blame Europe and American for looking down on African. If only we could strive to be self reliant, non of these things would happen. For counties like Ghana, sometimes I wonder if independence actually helped us. This is not what Nkrumah envision for us. We depend on foreign aid and funding for everything we do. Are we really independent. And have we began taking steps towards it?. I don't think so.

[@BrightRise-ss1wu]

They are crying over their freebies they've been enjoying for far too long and now that they are losing their criminal colonial grip of the African continent, they're becoming increasingly concerned and salty about their future in Africa.

[@samuelhill5898]

Africa was independent before colonization, the had empires bigger that Europe

[@capoislamort100]

Smh I can’t believe what I’m hearing!!