34. Francophone Pt. 2

Have You Heard George's Podcast?

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Drama, History, Fiction

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When is a breakup not a breakup? When your ex controls every aspect of your life. After walking through the freedom struggles of Ghana and the Congo in previous episodes, George turns his attention towards the “former” French colonies of West and Central Africa. What happens when freedom is gifted conditionally, not won through revolution? Is all independence created equal? Written by George the Poet Produced by Benbrick and George the Poet Original Score by Benbrick recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra Sound Design by Benbrick.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts.
0:05.0	Music Radio Podcasts.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to episode 34 of Have You Heard George's podcast. This is the six episode of the fourth chapter
0:17.0	after Empire. Let's go to West Africa a lot of francophone countries are sick and tired of France because France have disrespected them,
0:45.0	taking the resources to straight being a colonizer.
0:50.0	You're practicing your colonnialism
0:52.0	by having their public leaders,
0:55.0	where they can take all the resources out of West Africa
0:58.0	so France can live a better life.
1:02.0	A better life.
1:03.0	A better life.
1:05.0	A better life.
1:07.0	A better life. I'm Benin'
1:15.0	older people know me as Dauhmy.
1:20.0	So the slave trade, I host and back then I was called the slave ghost.
1:28.0	Now we make money from our soil.
1:31.0	Our men export are cotton and palm oil.
1:35.0	Global companies have set their sights on west and central Africa,
1:44.3	the home of palm oil, to In 2022 we had a military code.
2:04.2	We are planning for elections in 2024.
2:09.2	My new leaders ask the French to leave. Their aid and their soldiers aren't welcome anymore.
2:17.0	Nations that used to rule over a broken-a-faso that used to rule over Burkina Faso that used to be their colonizers
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