Africa Will Not Carry France

To scrape together €4.5 billion, French leaders want to abolish Easter Monday and Victory Day, forcing citizens to work longer.

By The Independentist Economic Desk

France, once a symbol of Western prosperity, is now drowning in its own contradictions. Its debt stands at €3.3 trillion, with annual interest surpassing $60 billion — larger than the GDP of dozens of African nations combined. The clock never stops: every second another €5,000 piles on.

To scrape together €4.5 billion, French leaders want to abolish Easter Monday and Victory Day, forcing citizens to work longer. But the streets are alive with resistance. Strikes shut down trains, schools lock their gates, hospitals groan under cuts, and anger spills onto the boulevards. Another €5 billion stripped from healthcare leaves ordinary citizens bearing the brunt, while the elite — cushioned in councils with €121,000 salaries, 54 holidays, and lavish perks — remain untouchable.

This is not a crisis of poverty. It is a crisis of priorities.

Yet even as its people rebel, France looks outward, clinging to a colonial script long rejected by history. But in Africa Sub-Sahara, the tide has turned. The Sahel is awake. From Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, to voices rising across the region, France is no longer master — it is the one being shown the door.

Burkina Faso stands as the symbol of this new chapter. Once dismissed as a failed state — its streets patrolled by foreign troops, its people terrorized, its economy chained to foreign aid — it now stands upright, refusing orders from Paris. For the first time, France is not dictating terms — it is begging for a meeting.

Across the Sahel, the colonial curtain has fallen. Military bases have been dismantled. French influence, once enforced with bayonets and bankers, is now openly rejected. What began as defiance has become a continental reawakening.

The Closing Call

The lesson is unmistakable: Africa Sub-Sahara must stop playing the colonial game. France’s crisis is not Africa’s burden. Its debts, its strikes, its elites clinging to privilege — these are the wages of a collapsing empire, not Africa’s responsibility to fix.

Now is the moment to act. The Sahel has shown the way: unity and courage can dismantle even the most entrenched colonizer. But this fire must spread. From Dakar to Dar es Salaam, from Bamako to Brazzaville, from Kinshasa to Cape Coast, Africa’s time has come.

Let Sub-Saharan leaders forge a Sahel-to-South Alliance — a shield against foreign military domination, a firewall against economic exploitation, and a platform for cultural pride and self-determination. No more lifelines to Paris. No more concessions to neocolonial schemes.

History has opened the door. It is time for Africa Sub-Sahara to walk through it, united, unyielding, and free.

The Independentist Economic Desk