News and Comment: Paris, China, Kabila, Zuma, and ECOWAS.
Posted in African Politics, Noted on Apr 6th, 2009
The BBC reports that the liberation of Paris in 1944 was carefully orchestrated to be “whites only”. Apparently, this was an American idea. So when De Gaulle wanted to have a French division lead the liberation, he had to remove the West African soldiers (which reportedly formed 65% of Free French Forces) from the division [...]
