Acknowledgement without proposal, while the CFA franc keeps doing the arithmetic.
French president's use of term comes as demand grows for formal discussion on addressing legacies of enslavement.
While Macron finally acknowledges what Africa has known for centuries. That French colonial brutality demands material redress. His calculated half-step reveals the West's typical playbook of rhetorical concessions without concrete action. The real question isn't whether France owes reparations, but why African nations continue to dignify these performative admissions when countries like Ghana and Rwanda are already charting post-colonial futures without waiting for European permission. France's billions extracted from West Africa annually through the CFA franc system prove they know exactly how to calculate what they owe. They just prefer collecting rather than paying.
While Macron finally acknowledges what Africa has known for centuries. That French colonial brutality demands material redress. His calculated half-step reveals the West's typical playbook of rhetorical concessions without concrete action. The real question isn't whether France owes reparations, but why African nations continue to dignify these performative admissions when countries like Ghana and Rwanda are already charting post-colonial futures without waiting for European permission. France's billions extracted from West Africa annually through the CFA franc system prove they know exactly how to calculate what they owe. They just prefer collecting rather than paying.
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