{"id":11673,"date":"2022-03-18T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/why-africans-must-become-more-machiavellian"},"modified":"2022-03-18T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:56:35","slug":"why-africans-must-become-more-machiavellian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/why-africans-must-become-more-machiavellian","title":{"rendered":"Why Africans must become more Machiavellian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>In a world where digital lynch mobs hunt in packs and where anonymity unleashes the worst in people, to the point of forcing many frightened leaders to become followers, I would highly recommend to those who lead us to read (or reread) Machiavelli.<\/p>\n

Out of the long list of terms that are poorly used, the word Machiavellianism makes the top of that list, along with cynicism, whose definition has completely changed from its original meaning (all wisdom and freedom).<\/p>\n

Nicolas Machiavelli was an outstanding realist and political thinker, and what he tells us in The Prince deserves to be engraved on every presidential palace\u2019s frontispiece: \u201cFallen princes are those who, during the calm, did not worry about the storm.<\/p>\n

In other words, explains the philosopher Roger-Pol Droit, \u201cif the prince can only have one virtue, it should be the ability of knowing how to anticipate.<\/p>\n

When one foresees evil from afar, which is a gift only given to men possessing great sagacity, it is soon cured; but if, for lack of light, one has only been able to see it once it has stricken all eyes, then it is impossible to cure it.<\/p>\n

And there is nothing more to be done. \u201d How many of our leaders are able to spot the signs and act accordingly before the storm comes? I wish that African leaders would become Machiavellian! Without limits<\/p>\n

Xi Jinping, Mao\u2019s most powerful successor, draws his inspiration not from the 16th-century Italian theorist but from a much older general and strategist, Sun Tzu, whose famous treatise The Art of War teaches us how to win without fighting.<\/p>\n

Xi\u2019s China is no longer that of Deng Xiaoping, the skilful \u201clittle helmsman\u201d who \u2013 at the end of the last century \u2013 discreetly and pragmatically liberated China\u2019s economy without provoking anyone. Xi exudes a self-confidence that borders on hubris against a backdrop of paranoia.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, he is at the head of a nation that is both bright red and wildly capitalist, a synthesis that the West thought would be impossible to achieve between these two seemingly incompatible ideologies.<\/p>\n

Because China is still a communist nation. In fact, it marked the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on 1 July, amidst a climate of ideological orthodoxy and unbridled nationalism.<\/p>\n

These celebrations were held in all of the world\u2019s capitals \u2013 particularly in Africa \u2013 and consisted of numerous ceremonies, conferences and commemorations led by zealous diplomats, the famous \u201cwolf warriors.<\/p>\n

\u201d The message dispatched from Beijing throughout the continent on this occasion has been the same for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

Unlike the West, China has never been a coloniser, it was dominated and humiliated for a century and a half by the very people who subjugated Africa. But thanks to the CCP, it has been able to rise up and become the world power that it is today.<\/p>\n

Despite this, it neither nurtures nor will it ever nurture imperialist designs towards its \u201cbrothers\u201d in the South for the very simple reason that this kind of ambition is neither in the genes nor in the culture of the Chinese people.<\/p>\n

Especially since, as Xi repeats, China will \u201cforever\u201d be considered a developing country \u2013 \u201cwith Chinese characteristics. \u201d This last clarification is important.<\/p>\n

It means both that the Chinese model does not pretend to be exportable \u2013 unlike the Western model \u2013 and that, in essence, Xi has few illusions about his country\u2019s image, especially in Africa.<\/p>\n

Despite the best efforts of the Confucius Institutes and Mandarin schools that are spreading across the continent, Beijing\u2019s leaders know that their soft power will never be able to compete with the multi-faceted cultural attraction of Western liberalism, especially among the youth.<\/p>\n

All the more so since \u2013 in addition to the stranglehold of debt and the degraded image of Chinese companies, many of which have no regard for environmental and social standards \u2013 African opinion is fully aware of the fact that the \u201cdiplomacy of masks\u201d has only partially succeeded in concealing a vital piece of information: that Covid-19 originated from a market in Wuhan.<\/p>\n

Therefore, China does not aim to seduce, but rather to impress and captivate. And above all, it is becoming more and more influential on the world stage. A recent US study has estimated that Beijing exerts a decisive economic, and therefore diplomatic, influence on around 80 countries.<\/p>\n

Among them are a majority of African states, which systematically align with China\u2019s position in all international forums as soon as sensitive issues such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet are brought up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be no external limits to Chinese power in the 21st century,\u201d writes Hubert V\u00e9drine in his enlightening Dictionnaire Amoureux de la G\u00e9opolitique (published in May by Plon\/Fayard), just as there are no limits to Xi\u2019s presidential terms.<\/p>\n

Anti-Western rhetoric Vladimir Putin also has time on his side \u2013 at least until 2036. The leader of the Kremlin spreads the same anti-Western rhetoric that has been fuelled by the very same feeling of humiliation \u2013 in this case, the disintegration of the USSR \u2013 as the master of the Forbidden City of Zhongnanhai.<\/p>\n

Europe and the US made the same error of judgement with regard to Russia as they did with China. They believed that its integration into the world capitalist economy would result in normalised relations and democratisation, according to the criteria that they had defined.<\/p>\n

They were also convinced that the pro-European current in Moscow would prevail over the Slavophile nationalist current and that the \u201cnew\u201d Russia would passively accept losing Ukraine and Nato\u2019s reinforced presence on its borders.<\/p>\n

In the short to medium term, this ongoing rapprochement, this quasi-alliance between these two neighbouring empires that were once enemies within the socialist camp, will result in disastrous consequences for Africa.<\/p>\n

Xi and Putin are facing the same opponent, the West, with different weapons. The Chinese have their economy and the Russians have their security operations and ideology. If these two powers come together to form a coordinated African policy, it will mean bad news for the continent.<\/p>\n

Due to its companies\u2019 lack of financial means and expertise (apart from the mining and energy sectors), the Russian offensive on the continent is both low-cost and carefully targeted, and is led by diplomats familiar with the techniques of the SVR \u2013 the foreign intelligence service.<\/p>\n

Its purely security aspect is now well known, but its deployment in the field of media influence and cyber-warfare to win over public opinion is less so, because it is much more insidious.<\/p>\n

From the CAR to Senegal, via Mali, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Benin and Cameroon, Moscow creates, and often finances, TV series, websites and influencers who claim to be nationalist, pan-Africanist and share a common hatred of France and its role on the continent.<\/p>\n

\u201cUseful idiots\u201d Social media has its stars, who have tens of thousands of followers. They include the Swiss-Cameroonian Nathalie Yamb, the Franco-Beninese Kemi Seba, and Cameroon\u2019s Banda Kani and Paul Ella. Their role models are Sankara, Lumumba, Gaddafi, Rawlings, Gbagbo and, ever since his latest anti-French outbursts, Senegal\u2019s Ousmane Sonko.<\/p>\n

African heads of state that are in trouble with Paris such as Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra, Paul Biya, Alpha Cond\u00e9, Teodoro Obiang Nguema and Assimi Go\u00efta are given special treatment on these endless, voluntarily conspiratorial programmes during which outrageousness rubs shoulders with fake news and where the likes of Emmanuel Macron, Alassane Ouattara and Macky Sall are vilified.<\/p>\n

Recently, a debate was held on the Cameroonian channel DBSTV that centred around one particular question: \u201cWhat will happen if Africa is at the heart of a great French plot in 2023?\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea that France\u2019s mega military exercise \u201cOrion\u201d, which billionaire Baba Danpullo\u2019s media claims is scheduled to take place in the first half of that year, is in any way linked to plans to \u201cinvade\u201d Africa is utter nonsense.<\/p>\n

However, that doesn\u2019t matter because such theories attract audiences and are shared all over social media, even by some within presidential palaces. Of course, it is highly unlikely that these web activists have posted any criticism directed towards Putin\u2019s, Xi or Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s African aims.<\/p>\n

But to describe them as mere \u201cuseful idiots\u201d of Moscow, Beijing and Ankara, as certain French chancelleries on the continent have done, is only partially accurate.<\/p>\n

Their discourse, which is tinged with bitterness and sometimes hatred towards the former coloniser, captures the frustrations felt by many Africans in the French-speaking world.<\/p>\n

In their eyes, the France of today is the same as the one from 1960, which, in the cruel words of Pierre Messmer, \u201cgranted independence to those who asked for it least after having eliminated those who demanded it the most.<\/p>\n

\u201d It has simply changed its mask and \u2013 barely \u2013 its method so that it can maintain its influence, which they consider predatory. The \u201ccommunity of values\u201d is a myth But aren\u2019t the Chinese and Russians just as greedy? No doubt.<\/p>\n

But at least they do not claim to impose their navel-gazing models of governance, their judicial unilateralism, their international criminal court and their variable human rights record, as the most authoritarian governments and unbridled anti-Western activists repeat in unison \u2013 amidst a paradoxical confusion of judgement and interest.<\/p>\n

It is time to realise that the inescapable \u201ccommunity of values\u201d, of which the West is the natural and legitimate custodian, is a myth and that people will continue to have different opinions and beliefs despite the miracle of standardisation and widespread digital technology.<\/p>\n

As the first French president to be born after African independence, Macron does not believe that it is his job to expiate the white man\u2019s burden, but rather to wipe the slate clean of his country\u2019s colonial past in the name of historical lucidity.<\/p>\n

The problem is that African memory does not coincide with his own in many areas and that history on the continent remains a vortex from which ammunition is drawn for the battles and controversies of today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The Russians and \u2013 more subtly \u2013 the Chinese have understood this perfectly well, to the detriment of a French \u201cAfrican policy\u201d that lacks Machiavellianism (in the best sense of the word).<\/p>\n

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