“Mandela was not the only head of state taken in by Koagne. Le king kept snapshots of himself with many a man of power, among them Mobutu Sese Seko and Denis Sassou Nguesso […] He took Mobutu for 15 million dollars. Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso lost 40 million to him. Sassou, Etienne Eyadéma of Togo, several high officials of Gabon, Tanzania and Kenya, a member of the Spanish government and an ex-operative of the Israeli Mossad were bamboozled as well.” – Dominique Malaquais (Blood Money: A Douala Chronicle).
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Neo Muyanga
The Resolutionairies by Ayi Kwei Armah (PER ANKH, 2013)
The Story: As a professional interpreter, Nefert works at conferences where African's rulers meet not to solve the continent's problems, but to resolve to beg for solutions from past and present masters. She knows that under foreign occupation, Africa's abundant resources were pillaged in a raw export economy that pauperized Africans to enrich invaders. Nefert endures her depression in loneliness until she gets drawn into a circle of highly skilled friends looking, like her, for a key to African future.